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Chocolate Semolina Cake

Simple chocolate semolina cake recipe.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Semolina and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 310 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 5
Prep50 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Semolina + flourtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together310 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + raisintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,071 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Cocoa powder + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,177 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Butter + cocoa powdertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 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 raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (semolina, kefir, egg, sugar, butter, cocoa powder, flour):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against semolina, kefir, egg, sugar, butter, cocoa powder, 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).