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Avocado Cake

A moist cake made with mashed avocado, sugar, butter, eggs, buttermilk, baking soda, flour, spices, raisins, walnuts, served with lemon sauce.

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Why it works: Avocado and cinnamon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 41 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Oven350 degrees
Time35 – 40 minutes

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Cream sugar and butter, add the 2 eggs and avocado and mix well.

  2. Add the baking soda to the buttermilk and add to the batter.

  3. Add spices to flour and add to the batter all at once and mix well.

  4. Dust the raisins and walnuts lightly with flour and add to the batter.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour into well-greased Pyrex pan (8”x10”) and bake at 350 degrees for 35 – 40 minutes. (This can be stored or frozen; however, it is delicious served warm with or without a tart lemon sauce.)

  2. Serve lemon sauce over the cake.

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Explore the science

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. Avocado + cinnamontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Nutmeg + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Buttermilk + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Flour + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16,954 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure as they set during baking.
Butter
Adds richness and tenderness through fat coating the flour and sugar.
Mashed avocado
Adds moisture and a soft, dense crumb to the cake.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidic buttermilk to lift and lighten the batter.
Buttermilk
Adds moisture and acidity that activates the baking soda.
All-purpose flour
Provides the main structure that sets as the cake bakes.

The step that matters

Adding the baking soda to the buttermilk. Baking soda needs an acid to react and produce gas for rise. Combining it with the buttermilk before adding it to the batter lets that reaction begin, so the cake rises well once baked.

“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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