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Choca Mocha Walnut Cake

This gluten-free/wheat-free recipe incorporates three of my favourite things: chocolate, coffee, and nuts, so I had to share it with all the chocaholics out there. The batter will look a bit runny, but don't panic! That's what will give it the moist texture.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Chickpea + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Olive + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together942 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Cocoa powder + hazelnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Hazelnut + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together112 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chickpea

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, honey, olive, flour, cocoa powder, hazelnut, walnut):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pistachiobetter flavor fit
  3. Cashew nutbetter flavor fit
  4. Chickpeathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, honey, olive, flour, cocoa powder, hazelnut, walnut. 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).