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Easy Refrigerator Cake

no-cook refrigerator cake with festive colours from the pistachios and cranberries

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Easy Refrigerator Cake

Why it works: Biscuit and pistachio share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Easy Refrigerator Cake

Makes 30 squares

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

644Calories
11 gProtein
41 gFat
63 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Pistachio1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)159
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Syrupnot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Biscuit + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Chocolate + pistachiotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Chocolate + syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Biscuit + chocolatetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together334 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Butter + chocolatetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

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

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

Swap the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, biscuit, chocolate, syrup):

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Pistachiothe original
  3. Hazelnutfits about as well
  4. Chestnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, biscuit, chocolate, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.