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Apple, Hazelnut and Calvados Upside-down Cake

Praline adds a pleasing crunch to this grown-up version of an old-fashioned pudding.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and hazelnut work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 76 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 12 slices
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple + hazelnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  5. Apple + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,501 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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