Skip to main content

World Recipe Cake

From the Recipes Wiki (Fandom) · 10 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Sugar and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 35,032 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

World Recipe Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350° F. Butter and flour three 8-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides.

  2. Line bottoms with parchment paper.

  3. Whisk 2 cups boiling water, cocoa powder, and reserved chopped ginger in medium heatproof bowl.

  4. Whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in large bowl.

  5. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until fluffy, about 1 minute.

  6. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating until incorporated after each addition.

  7. Beat in vanilla extract.

  8. Add flour mixture in 4 additions alternately with cocoa mixture in 3 additions, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

  9. Divide batter among prepared cake pans; smooth tops.

  10. Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.

  11. Cool in pans 5 minutes.

  12. Turn cakes out onto racks; cool completely.

  13. (Cakes can be prepared 1 day ahead. Wrap with plastic wrap and store at room temperature.)

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

This recipe comes from the Recipes Wiki on Fandom and is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Our formatting and summaries are shared under the same licence.

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. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,032 recipes

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

  2. Cocoa powder + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + vanillatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Cocoa powder + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,244 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,032 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

More chocolate cake recipes

Filling 18French 14Marbled 13Black 11Dark 10Marble 7 See all 565 →

You might also like

Vanilla Ice CreamVanilla Ice Cream108 recipesCoconut PuddingCoconut Pudding26 recipesCoconut CakeCoconut Cake17 recipesCocoa Nut CandyCocoa Nut Candy11 recipes