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Black Joe Cake

"This is similar to crazy cake and contains no eggs, butter or milk. It's very good with peanut butter frosting."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Black Joe Cake

Why it works: Cocoa and vanilla work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 357 recipes mention both. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Black Joe Cake

1 - 9x13 inch pan
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cocoa + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together357 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,032 recipes

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

  3. Flour + vanillatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together20,806 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,032 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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, vinegar, vanilla):

  1. Chestnutbetter flavor fit
  2. Almondbetter flavor fit
  3. Hazelnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, vinegar, vanilla. 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).