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Blackberry Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting

Freshly picked blackberries make this moist, tangy cake a summer treat.

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Blackberry Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting

Why it works: Flour and soy milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 203 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Blackberry Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting

Serves 10
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1289Calories
49 gProtein
51 gFat
159 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 16 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Soy Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Blackberry1 cup (144g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cakenot in our table0
Poppy Seednot in our table0
Coffeenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + soy milktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Poppy seed + yogurttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Poppy seed + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Lemon + soy milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

Swap the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, lemon, maple syrup, egg, soy milk, yogurt):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, lemon, maple syrup, egg, soy milk, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.