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Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

A pound cake made with cake mix, pudding, sugar, oil, water, eggs, sour cream, and chocolate morsels.

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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

Oven350 degrees
Time60 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Stir cake mix, pudding, and sugar together.

  2. Beat in oil, then water, and then eggs, one at a time.

  3. Stir in sour cream.

  4. Toss chocolate morsels with a little all-purpose flour.

  5. Stir in chocolate morsels.

  6. Pour into a prepared tube pan.

Bake

  1. Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

501Calories
25 gProtein
28 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cakenot in our table0
Puddingnot in our table0
Waternot 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.

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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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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 and richness as the cake sets.
Sour cream
Adds moisture and tenderness to the crumb.
Vegetable oil
Provides fat that keeps the cake moist and tender.
Chocolate morsels
Add melted pockets of chocolate flavor throughout the cake.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps browning of the crust.

The step that matters

Coat the chocolate morsels in flour before stirring them in. The light flour coating helps suspend the morsels evenly so they do not all sink to the bottom of the batter during baking.

“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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