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Bananas Foster Baby Cakes

Upside down banana baby cakes doused in brown sugar rum butter sauce. Mardi Gras, here we come!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Bananas Foster Baby Cakes

Why it works: Rum and banana work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 183 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Bananas Foster Baby Cakes

Serves 2
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1129Calories
40 gProtein
40 gFat
146 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Saucenot in our table0
Cakenot 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. Rum + bananatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Banana + yogurttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together508 recipes

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

  3. Butter + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,416 recipes

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

  4. Butter + yogurttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,333 recipes

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

  5. Butter + rumtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,007 recipes

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

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, butter, sugar, rum, banana, yogurt, egg):

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Pecansthe original
  3. Walnutfits less well
  4. Beansfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, butter, sugar, rum, banana, yogurt, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.