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Kale and Orange Cupcakes with Orange Icing Recipe

Kale in a cake. Cakey-kale. Make sure you're getting all your vitamins. By eating cake. Awesome!

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and orange work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 47 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 people
Prep35 min
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 lovefood. 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. Kale + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  3. Vanilla + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,371 recipes

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

  4. Kale + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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 vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, butter, sugar, egg, orange, flour):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, butter, sugar, egg, orange, 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).