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Chocolate Beet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing

Incredibly delicious and moist chocolate beet cupcakes with beet cream cheese icing. They are so moist and chocolatey. Perfect for sharing with loved ones.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,746 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 20
Prep1 hr
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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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. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Cocoa + coffeetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Cocoa + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together357 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + coffeetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,391 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

Sugar and vanilla 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 lemon

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

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cocoa, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, coffee. 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).