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Ginger Cake with Caramel Frosting

This moist treacle sponge will keep without the frosting for up to a week wrapped in foil and, if anything, will improve with time

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and ginger work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 950 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Cuts into 12 slices
Prep25 min

Ingredients

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

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

  1. Syrup + gingertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  4. Sugar + syruptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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