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Maple Spice Muffins and Giveaway

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By delishhh · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Maple Spice Muffins and Giveaway

Why it works: Spread and cream share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 96 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Maple Spice Muffins and Giveaway

12 muffins
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

999Calories
39 gProtein
20 gFat
171 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Spreadnot in our table0
Pastrynot 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.

By delishhh. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Spread + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + carrottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Maple syrup + appletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together272 recipes

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

  4. Carrot + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together680 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Yogurt + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together502 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spread, maple syrup, lemon, yogurt, cream, egg, apple):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spread, maple syrup, lemon, yogurt, cream, egg, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.