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Vanilla Bean Bread

A sweet, moist, rich quick bread with the flavor of vanilla bean. Tastes like vanilla cake.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,294 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 10
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease 10 muffin cups or line them with paper liners.

  2. Split the vanilla bean lengthwise and scrape out the seeds. Whisk them with the kefir or yogurt, coconut oil or canola oil, sugar, egg whites, and vanilla extract until smooth.

  3. In a separate bowl, whisk the whole wheat pastry flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.

  4. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture just until no dry streaks remain. Do not overmix.

  5. Divide the batter evenly among the 10 cups, filling each about two-thirds full.

  6. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the tops spring back. The center should reach 160°F (71°C) because of the egg whites.

  7. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Vanilla + coconuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Vanilla + sugartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Coconut + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Wheat + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,327 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Vanilla + wheattop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Vanilla and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, sugar, egg, wheat, flour):

  1. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Figbetter flavor fit
  3. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, sugar, egg, wheat, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).