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Chocolate Scotch Whiskey Cake

"Made with German's sweet chocolate, raisins, whiskey and almonds. Best if made a day in advance, and it gets better the longer it sits."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,733 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

1 - 9 inch springform pan

Ingredients

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

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. Chocolate + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,733 recipes

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

  2. Raisin + almondtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,781 recipes

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

  3. Flour + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Raisin + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,071 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,198 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

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

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinthe original
  3. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Figabout as good a flavor fit

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