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Coconut and Cardamom Sweet Buns Recipe

If you are looking or an alternative use for your cupcake or muffin tray, these delicious sweet buns are a great alternative for the more adventurous baker.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 214 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

12 people
Prep30 min
Cook25 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. Coconut + cardamomtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Cinnamon + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,299 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Flour + cardamomtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together627 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 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 cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, bread, flour, sugar, egg, cream, cardamom):

  1. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, bread, flour, sugar, egg, cream, cardamom. 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).