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Apple Butter Anniversary Cake

"A sweet indulgence for any special occasion, this cake is flavored with apple butter, cinnamon, and ginger, layered with sweet apple filling, and topped with whipped pineapple frosting."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,692 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings

Ingredients

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

  • FILLING
  • FROSTING

Directions

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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. Apple + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Cider + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, cider, apple, butter, cream, egg, cinnamon):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Clovebetter flavor fit
  3. Maceabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cider, apple, butter, cream, egg, cinnamon. 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).