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Lighter Lemon Drizzle Cake

Angela Nilsen gives one of our site's most popular cakes the ultimate healthy makeover by reducing fat

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Lighter Lemon Drizzle Cake

Why it works: Flour and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,673 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Lighter Lemon Drizzle Cake

CUTS INTO 12 slices
Prep25 min
Cook40 min

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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. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  4. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and egg share little aroma chemistry, yet 106,462 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, lemon, sugar, egg, yogurt):

  1. Chickpeaabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Milletabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Pistachioabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, lemon, sugar, egg, yogurt. 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).