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Chocolate Cake

Melting in the mouth chocolate cake

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Chocolate Cake

Why it works: Almond and mixed nuts share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chocolate Cake

Makes 1 cake

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1265Calories
31 gProtein
49 gFat
172 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate Mousse1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cakenot in our table0
Mixed Nutsnot 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.

Explore the science

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. Almond + mixed nutstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Almond + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Mixed nuts + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Almond + chocolatetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

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

  5. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

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

Swap the mixed nuts

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

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Mixed nutsthe original

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