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Buckwheat and Butternut Cupcakes with Tahini Maple Icing

These vegan cupcakes are deliciously moist, thanks to their secret ingredient: butternut squash.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Buckwheat and Butternut Cupcakes with Tahini Maple Icing

Why it works: Coconut and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,294 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Buckwheat and Butternut Cupcakes with Tahini Maple Icing

Makes 10
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1055Calories
20 gProtein
45 gFat
141 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Tahini1 tbsp (15g)89
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Buckwheatnot in our table0
Rosenot 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 bbcfood. 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. Coconut + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Butternut squash + coconuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butternut squash + flourtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butternut squash + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the buckwheat

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, flour, cinnamon, coconut, maple syrup, vanilla, apple cider vinegar):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Clovefits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Buckwheatthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, flour, cinnamon, coconut, maple syrup, vanilla, apple cider vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.