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Gluten-Free Mini Carrot Cakes

Bitesize pieces of moist, spicy carrot cake with a crunch on top. Very easy to make - and suitable for coeliacs.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 176 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Gluten-Free Mini Carrot Cakes

Makes 12 cakes

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

968Calories
24 gProtein
40 gFat
119 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Waternot in our table0
Cakenot 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. Pine + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together176 recipes

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

  2. Almond + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Nuts + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

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

  4. Pine + carrottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Carrot + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together416 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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 (sugar, pine, nuts, rum, almond, flour, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, pine, nuts, rum, almond, flour, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.