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Fudge-glazed Black Forest Bundt Cake

A chocolate bundt cake with dried cherries, Kirsch, and a cocoa fudge glaze, made with tofu and prune purée.

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Why it works: Wheat and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 246 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Fudge-glazed Black Forest Bundt Cake

Oven350F
Time40 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat oven to 350F.

  2. Spray a Bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.

  3. To make Cake: Combine pastry flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a mixing bowl. Add cherries and walnuts, and mix. Set aside.

Make the cake

  1. Put tofu in a food processor, and process until smooth. Add prune purée, and process again. Add evaporated cane juice, brewed coffee and Kirsch. Process until smooth.

  2. Fold tofu mixture into dry ingredients, and turn into prepared pan.

  3. Bake for 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.

  4. Remove from oven, cool for 15 minutes in pan and invert onto rack to cool.

Glaze and serve

  1. Meanwhile, to make Fudge Glaze: Sift powdered sugar and cocoa into a mixing bowl. Add orange juice, Kirsch and vanilla. Blend with a whisk or fork, and drizzle generously over cooled cake.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

928Calories
26 gProtein
18 gFat
167 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 16 ingredients. The other 6 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
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Tofu100g firm76
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cakenot in our table0
Wheatnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Prunenot in our table0
Coffeenot in our table0
Fudgenot 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. Wheat + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Wheat + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cocoa powder + coffeetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Flour + tofutop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together350 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole wheat pastry flour
Provides the structure that holds the moist batter together as it bakes.
Silken tofu
Adds moisture and a dense, tender crumb without dairy or eggs.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidic and cocoa components to lift the batter as it bakes.
Evaporated cane juice
Sweetens the cake and helps it brown lightly during baking.
Cocoa powder
Gives the cake its deep chocolate flavor and dark color.
Prune purée
Adds moisture and natural sweetness, helping the crumb stay soft.

The step that matters

Process the tofu mixture until smooth. Any lumps of tofu left in the batter will show as uneven pockets in the finished crumb. Fully blending the wet ingredients gives an even, smooth batter that bakes uniformly.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, tofu, coffee, sugar):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Beansfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, tofu, coffee, sugar. 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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