Doughnut + Marzipan
Doughnut and marzipan are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.34) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.20). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Confections and sweet processed desserts" mode.
What do these scores mean?
Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.
Ingredients that go well with both doughnut and marzipan — candidates for completing the dish.
How this is ranked
Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withConfections and sweet processed desserts
- Cooks withSweet confections and sugary fruits
- Cooks withRich confections nuts and spirits
- Cooks withSweet liqueurs fruits and confections
- BlendedProcessed sweet confections and desserts
- BlendedSweet confections and sugary fruits
- BlendedRich nuts, fats, and spirits
- Tastes likeSpirits, wines and indulgent confections