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Billington's Easter Cupcakes

Limited edition Easter Carrot Cupcakes created in partnership with Bea's of Bloomsbury.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 29 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 11,917 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 26 cakes

Ingredients

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

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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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Cinnamon + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together981 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Nutmeg + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, vanilla, egg, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, pecans):

  1. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Arrowrootbetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, vanilla, egg, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, pecans. 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).