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Clay's Sherry Wine Cake

"This cake has a delicious flavor and a delightful presentation. Nobody will ever guess how easy it is to make."

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Clay's Sherry Wine Cake

Why it works: Sherry and vanilla work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 506 recipes. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓

Clay's Sherry Wine Cake

1 -10 inch Bundt pan

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

311Calories
7 gProtein
27 gFat
3 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cakenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Puddingnot 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. Sherry + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  2. Vanilla + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,730 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

  4. Sherry + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together188 recipes

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

  5. Cream + sherrytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

Cream and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 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 walnut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Cocoafits better
  4. Walnutthe original

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