Name: Peanut Butter Choc Banana Cake
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 120ml sunflower oil; 225g light muscovado sugar; 3 large eggs; 225g self-raising flour; 2 very ripe bananas; 150ml natural yoghurt; 50g dark or milk chocolate chips; 3 large Reese's peanut butter cups (if you can't get hold of these, use extra chocolate chips); 50g smooth peanut butter + 20g for swirling

Why it works: Sunflower and peanut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Peanut Butter Choc Banana Cake

Serves 10

Ingredients

120ml sunflower oil
225g light muscovado sugar
3 large eggs
225g self-raising flour
2 very ripe bananas
150ml natural yoghurt
50g dark or milk chocolate chips
3 large Reese's peanut butter cups (if you can't get hold of these, use extra chocolate chips)
50g smooth peanut butter + 20g for swirling

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1152Calories

37 gProtein

38 gFat

169 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Peanut	1 oz (28g)	161
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0

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.

Sunflower + peanuttop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together90 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Banana + peanuttop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together308 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Banana + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,470 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Sunflower + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together803 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, sugar, egg, flour, milk, peanut, butter):

Vanillafits better
Coconutfits better
Lemonfits about as well
Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, sugar, egg, flour, milk, peanut, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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