Why it works: Wine and coconut work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓
Cup Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare wine cake batter as usual.
Pour the batter into small molds or cups.
Bake until done, then remove from molds.
Ice the tops of the cakes.
Sprinkle shredded coconut over the icing.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Wine + coconuttop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together159 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
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