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Carrot Cake with Maille® Old Style Mustard

"Miniature carrot cakes are packed with walnuts, raisins, and carrots, and topped with a lemony icing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,073 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

20 small cakes

Ingredients

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

  • Carrot cake
  • Icing

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. Carrot + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Almond + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together993 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Almond + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Almond + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,198 recipes

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

  5. Carrot + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together505 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, almond, flour, sugar, butter, egg, mustard):

  1. Hazelnutabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Beansabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Pistachioabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, almond, flour, sugar, butter, egg, mustard. 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).