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Cholesterol-free Carrot Cake

A carrot cake made without cholesterol, using egg substitute, oil, and pineapple.

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Why it works: Cinnamon and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,287 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Cholesterol-free Carrot Cake

Oven350
Time60 to 65 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat oven to 350.

  2. Spray 10 cup fluted tube pan with nonstick cooking spray.

  3. In large bowl, mix flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Make the batter

  1. In medium bowl, with wire whisk or fork, beat brown sugar, egg substitute, salad oil and vanilla until smooth.

  2. Stir egg-substitute mixture, shredded carrots, pineapple with its own juice and walnuts into flour mixture just until flour is moistened.

  3. Pour batter into tube pan.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake 60 to 65 minutes until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.

  2. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 10 minutes.

  3. Remove cake from pan and cool completely on rack.

  4. Sprinkle top of cake with confectioners' sugar.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

852Calories
22 gProtein
23 gFat
139 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot 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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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 + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

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

  2. Vanilla + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cinnamon + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cinnamon + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together981 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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

Flour
Provides the structure that holds the cake together as it bakes.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and moisture, and helps the cake stay tender and browned.
Salad oil
Adds fat that keeps the cake moist and tender after cooling.
Egg substitute
Binds the batter and adds structure and moisture to the crumb.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidic pineapple and sugar to help the cake rise.
Shredded carrots
Contributes moisture, sweetness and the characteristic dense, moist texture.

The step that matters

Stir the batter just until the flour is moistened. Overmixing develops gluten in the flour, which makes the cake tough and dense instead of tender.

Swap the carrot

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

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cinnamon, sugar, egg, vanilla, pineapple, walnut. 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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