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Pumpkin & Banana Cake

A cross between a carrot cake & banana bread - cooked in a slow cooker

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Pumpkin and banana work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 99 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12

Ingredients

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

  • For the cake:-
  • For the topping:-

Directions

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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. Pumpkin + bananatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + pumpkintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Cinnamon + pecanstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Pecans + pumpkintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together272 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, cinnamon, ginger, sugar, pumpkin, banana, sunflower):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  3. Cashew nutbetter flavor fit
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cinnamon, ginger, sugar, pumpkin, banana, sunflower. 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).