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Caramel and Coffee Cake with a Caramel Sauce and Vanilla Ice Cream

Adding oodles of caramel to a basic coffee cake makes for an easy dessert to feed a crowd. If you don't have an ice cream maker buy good quality ice cream instead of making your own.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 100 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6-8
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

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By bbcfood. 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. Coffee + cream cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together100 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

  3. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

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