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Creamy Chocolate Mousse Pie

"The light-as-air mousse in this pie gets its sweetness from melted marshmallows and milk chocolate. Use your favorite pie crust recipe or a store-bought graham cracker crust."

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Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,463 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

1 9-inch pie
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Combine the milk chocolate bar, miniature marshmallows, and milk in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly until melted and smooth, about 5 minutes.

  2. Remove the saucepan from the heat and let the chocolate mixture cool to room temperature, stirring now and then, about 10 minutes.

  3. Whip the heavy whipping cream in a chilled bowl until stiff peaks form, about 3 to 5 minutes.

  4. Fold one-third of the whipped cream into the cooled chocolate mixture to lighten it. Gently fold in the remaining cream until no streaks remain.

  5. Spoon the mousse into the baked 9-inch pie shell and spread it evenly to the edges.

  6. Refrigerate the pie uncovered for at least 4 hours, or until the filling is firm enough to slice.

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. Chocolate + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Milk + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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