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Beetroot Cake Recipe

"This cake goes particularly well with morning coffee or afternoon tea – it is what I would call an ‘anytime cake’."

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 23 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

10 people
Prep40 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (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. Beetroot + hazelnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cranberry + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Beetroot + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together503 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Beetroot + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Hazelnut + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together453 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, milk, beetroot, hazelnut, flour, ginger):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Figbetter flavor fit
  3. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, milk, beetroot, hazelnut, flour, ginger. 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).