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Coffee and Cardamom Cake with Peanut Ice Cream

Homemade peanut ice cream, coffee and cardamom cake with pistachio cream and a sprinkling of toffee popcorn dust. Who could resist this nutty recipe?

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Coffee and Cardamom Cake with Peanut Ice Cream

Serves 6
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1329Calories
41 gProtein
72 gFat
134 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 14 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Pistachio1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)159
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cardamom1 tsp ground (2g)6
Coffeenot in our table0
Toffeenot in our table0
Popcornnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Milk + coffeetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Peanut + cardamomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the cardamom

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, milk, cream, peanut, butter, coffee):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Cardamomthe original
  4. Gingerfits about as well

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