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Blueberry Soured Cream Cake with Cheesecake Frosting

The blueberries in this recipe will burst in your mouth as you bite into your slice. The cake is delicious with a cup of tea, or served as an impressive dessert

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 41,494 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Cuts into 10 slices
Cook50 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and grease and line a 20cm (8in) round cake tin.

  2. Beat the soft butter and caster sugar together until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.

  3. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla extract and soured cream.

  4. Sift or whisk the self-raising flour and baking powder together, then fold into the wet mixture until just combined.

  5. Fold in most of the blueberries, spread the batter in the tin, and scatter the remaining blueberries over the top.

  6. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes until risen, golden and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.

  7. For the frosting, beat the Philadelphia cheese and icing sugar together until smooth and spreadable.

  8. Spread the cheesecake frosting over the cooled cake and cut into 10 slices to serve.

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. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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