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Vodka Chocolate Cake

Light but moist, cake with a twist, but most of all easy to make.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Vodka and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 70 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12

Ingredients

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

  • For the cake
  • For the filling
  • For the spread
  • For the punch
  • For the icing

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. Vodka + chocolatetop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Strawberry jam + strawberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Cocoa + chocolatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together165 recipes

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

  4. Cream + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, flour, cream, strawberry jam, vodka, strawberry):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Hazelnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, flour, cream, strawberry jam, vodka, strawberry. 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).