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Dulce De Leche Cake with a Dark Chocolate Glaze

A gorgeous, fluffy cake made with dulce de leche caramel and topped with a dark chocolate glaze and toasted hazelnuts.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Dulce De Leche Cake with a Dark Chocolate Glaze

Why it works: Vanilla and hazelnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 279 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Dulce De Leche Cake with a Dark Chocolate Glaze

Serves 10
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

902Calories
21 gProtein
32 gFat
126 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Dulce De Lechenot in our table0
Hazelnutnot 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. Vanilla + hazelnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Hazelnut + chocolatetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together350 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Flour + hazelnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together464 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the hazelnut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutthe original
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Macadamia nutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, egg, vanilla, flour, cream, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.