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Banana Date Cake with Walnut & Honey Glaze

Sticky and sweet, this bundt-shaped banana bread with buttery glaze and cinnamon is a show-stopping bake

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 395 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

CUTS INTO 8 slices
Prep25 min

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. Honey + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Cinnamon + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,446 recipes

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

  3. Cinnamon + sugartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Cinnamon + datestop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together283 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  5. Cinnamon + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Cinnamon and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 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