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Easy Chocolate Sherbet

"Sherbet? Chocolate? Sounds weird but tastes delicious. It's something really luxurious for chocolate lovers. Serve garnished with mint leaf, orange peel strips, or strawberries."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Easy Chocolate Sherbet

Why it works: Sugar and cocoa powder are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,920 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Easy Chocolate Sherbet

2 pint
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

211Calories
2 gProtein
9 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Waternot 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. Sugar + cocoa powdertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Cocoa powder + almondtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together306 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + almondtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cocoa powder):

  1. Hazelnutfits better
  2. Cocoafits about as well
  3. Almondthe original
  4. Peanutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cocoa powder. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.