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Macadamia Nut and Coconut Sponge Cake with Lime Cream Cheese Topping

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 934 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Macadamia Nut and Coconut Sponge Cake with Lime Cream Cheese Topping

Serves 9
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

946Calories
19 gProtein
39 gFat
135 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 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
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Macadamianot 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 + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together934 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Coconut + cream cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  4. Flour + limetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + coconuttop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,315 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the lime

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Limethe original

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