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Pie Snacking Cake

A cake made with apple pie filling and standard cake ingredients.

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Why it works: Cinnamon and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Pie Snacking Cake

Oven350 degrees
Time45 minutes to an hour

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grease and flour the pan, then preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Mix and bake

  1. Mix together sugar, salt, flour, baking soda, and cinnamon, eggs, oil, and pie filling.

  2. Add the batter to the pan and bake for 45 minutes to an hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

802Calories
20 gProtein
20 gFat
135 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 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
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pie Fillingnot 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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour
Provides the main structure as its proteins set during baking.
Eggs
Add structure and help bind the batter as they set.
Vegetable oil
Adds moisture and a tender crumb.
Baking soda
Reacts in the batter to help the cake rise.
White sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the crust brown and the crumb stay tender.
Apple pie filling
Adds moisture, sweetness, and apple flavor throughout the cake.

The step that matters

Bake. The record gives a range of 45 minutes to an hour, so doneness is best checked rather than timed alone. Baking sets the flour and eggs into a firm structure, and a cake pulled too early can sink or stay gummy in the centre.

Swap the apple

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

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

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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