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Choc Frosted Berry Cupcakes

Moist yet rich, fruity and chocolatey... these will be a hit at any celebration

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,746 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12

Ingredients

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

  • FROSTING

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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. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Chocolate + cocoatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Raspberry + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together453 recipes

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

  4. Raspberry + cream cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together160 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Sugar + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, egg, raspberry, butter, chocolate, cream cheese):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  3. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, egg, raspberry, butter, chocolate, cream cheese. 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).