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Hazelnut Cake with Honey and Goats' Cheese Cream and Raspberry Coulis

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 259 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

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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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. Honey + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  4. Cinnamon + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,446 recipes

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

  5. Hazelnut + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (hazelnut, honey, egg, butter, flour, cheese, cream):

  1. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against hazelnut, honey, egg, butter, flour, cheese, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).