Birthday Bug Cake

Name: Birthday Bug Cake
Prep time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 16
Ingredients: Easy vanilla cake and syrup mix (see recipe below); 100g white chocolate (I used Milkybar); Basic vanilla buttercream mix (see Easy vanilla cake recipe below); 12 giant chocolate buttons , 6 cut in half; treat-size pack chocolate buttons; 2 chocolate sticks (I used Matchmakers); hundreds and thousands; multicoloured candles; red (or whatever colour you like) writing icing tubes (I used Asda); multicoloured candles

Children will love the butterfly and ladybird decorations on this colourful cake – and you'll love its simplicity

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients

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Why it works: Vanilla and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Birthday Bug Cake

Serves 16

Prep50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

167Calories

1 gProtein

9 gFat

18 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 5 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Cake	not in our table	0
Syrup	not in our table	0
Icing	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.

Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,020 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Vanilla + syruptop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,855 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Syrup + chocolatetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,239 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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