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Apple Upside-Down Cakes

"You'll flip over these little cakes made with slices of Golden Delicious apples, spice cake and Marzetti® Old Fashioned Caramel Dip."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Apple Upside-Down Cakes

Why it works: Cinnamon and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,287 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Apple Upside-Down Cakes

12 servings
Prep12 min
Cook22 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

410Calories
24 gProtein
20 gFat
34 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Waternot in our table0
Cakenot in our table0
Puddingnot 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 allrecipes. 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. Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Apple + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,501 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Vanilla + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Vanilla + eggtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together27,347 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Vanilla and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 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 apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cinnamon, vanilla, cream, egg):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cinnamon, vanilla, cream, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.