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Basil Cake with Balsamic Strawberries

"I developed this cake for an Easter party and it was beautiful! It was a refreshing new blend of flavors and now I use fresh herbs as often as I can when I making desserts! This cake sits well. You can serve the berries on the side as well."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Basil Cake with Balsamic Strawberries

Why it works: Basil and mint work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 393 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Basil Cake with Balsamic Strawberries

1 fluted tube cake
Prep15 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

411Calories
24 gProtein
20 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Cakenot in our table0
Puddingnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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. Basil + minttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

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

  5. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 basil

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Peppermintfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Basilthe original

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