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Dr. Who Dalek Cake Recipe

I've made my sons' birthday cakes every year and each time I somehow come up with something twice as difficult as the year before but it's great fun and worth...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and peanut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,279 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Dr. Who Dalek Cake Recipe

20 servings +

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

316Calories
9 gProtein
23 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 4 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Pienot in our table0
Maltnot 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.

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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. Chocolate + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Chocolate + malttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

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

  3. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Chocolate + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Malt + peanuttop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7 recipes

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

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

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, malt, butter):

  1. Peanutthe original
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Cocoafits less well
  4. Hazelnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, malt, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.