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Blood Orange Yogurt Olive Oil Cake

"Wonderful use for blood oranges in the winter. Plus, the cake is moist and requires no butter and very little processed sugar. It's delicious with or without the glaze."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Yogurt and agave work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 59 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep20 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Grease a 9-inch round cake pan lightly with a little of the olive oil and set it aside.

  2. In a bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, baking powder and kosher salt.

  3. In a separate large bowl, whisk the Greek yogurt, agave nectar, eggs, vanilla extract, blood orange zest, extra-virgin olive oil and the blood orange juice until smooth.

  4. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture just until no dry streaks remain. Do not overmix.

  5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Sprinkle evenly with the turbinado sugar.

  6. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until the top is golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the eggs are set.

  7. Cool the cake in the pan on a rack for 15 minutes, then turn it out onto the rack to cool completely.

  8. Whisk the confectioners' sugar with the remaining 2 tablespoons blood orange juice until smooth and pourable. Drizzle over the cooled cake and let it set before slicing.

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. Yogurt + agavetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Yogurt + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Agave + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Vanilla + sugartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  5. Orange + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,371 recipes

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

Vanilla and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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 vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, yogurt, agave, egg, orange, olive, sugar):

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, yogurt, agave, egg, orange, olive, sugar. 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).