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White Banoffee Squares

A re-make of the Classical Banoffee pie in cake form. Light moist white chocolate banana cake topped with sticky toffee sauce, chocolate shavings and dried banana - and mini eggs if made for Easter :)

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and condensed milk share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

White Banoffee Squares

Makes 16 squares

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1306Calories
54 gProtein
45 gFat
171 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 13 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Fudgenot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Cakenot in our table0
Dulce De Lechenot 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.

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.

  1. Sauce + condensed milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + condensed milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Chocolate + condensed milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (flour, sugar, butter, egg, chocolate, sauce, condensed milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Bananathe original

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