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Hazelnut & Baileys Meringue Cake

A fantastic combination of sweet nutty meringue, fresh cream and tart raspberries

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Hazelnut & Baileys Meringue Cake

Why it works: Sunflower and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 28 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Hazelnut & Baileys Meringue Cake

Serves 6
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

245Calories
8 gProtein
12 gFat
29 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Hazelnutnot 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. Sunflower + hazelnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. White wine + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,760 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

Swap the hazelnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, egg, sugar, white wine, vinegar, cream):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Sesamefits about as well
  4. Hazelnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, egg, sugar, white wine, vinegar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.