Valentine's Heart Cake

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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together124,287 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

2. Flour + cocoa powdertop 13% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together2,244 recipes

   Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

3. Cocoa powder + sugartop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together2,920 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

4. Butter + cocoa powdertop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

   Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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