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Lemon Cream and Blueberry Pound Cake

Short-cut version of a great dessert on a hot summer evening!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Blueberry and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 540 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Zest the lemon, then halve it and squeeze out the juice. Set the zest aside.

  2. In a bowl, stir the blueberry pie filling with the sugar and half the lemon juice. Let it sit for 10 minutes so the sugar dissolves.

  3. In a chilled bowl, whip the heavy cream with 1 cup of the confectioners sugar and half the lemon zest until stiff peaks form.

  4. Whisk the whole milk with the remaining confectioners sugar and remaining lemon juice until smooth and pourable.

  5. Cut the pound cake into 6 even slices about 1 inch [2.5 cm] thick and place one on each plate.

  6. Spoon the lemon cream over the cake, top with the blueberry mixture, drizzle with the milk glaze, and dust with the remaining lemon zest. Serve chilled.

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. Blueberry + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together540 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  4. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

  5. Blueberry + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together623 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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