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Chocolate Cream Cake Filling

A chocolate cream filling made by melting chocolate and mixing with sugar, milk, butter, and flavoring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Chocolate Cream Cake Filling

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt the chocolate in a saucepan.

  2. In a separate pot, combine sugar and sweet milk, and place over medium heat.

  3. Bring the mixture to a rapid boil, stirring constantly for 2 minutes.

  4. Remove from heat, add flavoring, and beat until stiff enough to spread.

Assemble

  1. Spread the cream on your cake layers quickly, then top with melted chocolate.

  2. For layer cakes, spread cream on all layers at once before adding chocolate.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

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

  4. Chocolate + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Provides the rich chocolate flavor and color of the filling.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the filling and, when boiled, helps it thicken as it cools and stiffens.
Sweet milk
Supplies liquid that dissolves the sugar and forms the body of the cream.

The step that matters

Boiling the sugar and milk. Boiling for the full 2 minutes while stirring dissolves the sugar and brings the mixture to the concentration needed to set. Undercooking leaves it runny; stirring prevents scorching on the bottom of the pot.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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