Name: Cinnamon Roll Banana Bread Sheet Cake Recipe
Yield: 24 Servings
Ingredients: 1 stick unsalted butter, softened; 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar; 1/2 cup sour cream; 1 1/4 cups mashed bananas, about 3 large ripe bananas; 1 1/2 cups all-purpose Gold Medal Flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 1 stick unsalted butter, melted; 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 stick unsalted butter; 4 ounces softened cream cheese; 2 3/4 cups powdered sugar; 2 tablespoons almond milk or regular milk

Why it works: Cinnamon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

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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.

Cinnamon + almondtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,514 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,673 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,747 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,341 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, cream, flour, cinnamon, cream cheese, almond):

Vanillafits better
Raisinfits better
Coconutfits better
Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, cream, flour, cinnamon, cream cheese, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Almond Milk	1 cup (240ml) unsweetened	30
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Cinnamon Roll Banana Bread Sheet Cake Recipe