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Pumpkin Spice Cake with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting

Soft, moist and full of fall flavors.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Pumpkin Spice Cake with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting

Why it works: Yogurt and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 873 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Pumpkin Spice Cake with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting

Serves 12
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

900Calories
38 gProtein
31 gFat
116 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cakenot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Pienot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Yogurt + cream cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together873 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Pumpkin + yogurttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  4. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Pumpkin + cream cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together283 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, egg, yogurt, cream cheese):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

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