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Dark Chocolate & Orange Cake

A dense, dark and devilishly delicious cake, this will be gone before you know it

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Dark Chocolate & Orange Cake

Why it works: Orange and sunflower work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Dark Chocolate & Orange Cake

Cuts into 10 slices
Prep40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

952Calories
22 gProtein
32 gFat
141 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Orange + sunflowertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Sunflower + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together803 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cocoa powder + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,244 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Butter and flour 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 orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, chocolate, egg, sugar, sunflower, cocoa powder, flour):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Orangethe original

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