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Cherry & Almond Pancake Cake

Sweet and sticky dessert that makes the perfect centerpiece for any Shrove Tuesday dinner.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and cherry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 671 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep12 hr
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, tree nuts (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. Almond + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Almond + flaxseedtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Agave + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Almond + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Almond + agavetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together198 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the flaxseed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, cream, agave, sugar, cherry, flour):

  1. Pistachiobetter flavor fit
  2. Cashew nutbetter flavor fit
  3. Hazelnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Flaxseedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, cream, agave, sugar, cherry, 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).