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Coffee Fondant Creams

A confection of fondant cream flavored with coffee, shaped into balls or ovals and dipped in liquid fondant.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,339 recipes. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

Coffee Fondant Creams

Ingredients

Directions

Make the centers

  1. Flavor the fondant cream with the strongest coffee essence available.

  2. Roll the mixture into balls or ovals between your hands and let them dry slightly on the surface.

Dip and dry

  1. Dip each piece one by one into liquid fondant using a wire fork.

  2. Place the dipped pieces on oiled tin sheets to dry.

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. Cream + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Fondant cream
Forms the sweet, firm body of each center.
Coffee essence
Gives the creams their coffee flavor.

The step that matters

Letting the rolled centers dry slightly before dipping. A slightly dried surface helps the centers hold their shape and keeps the liquid fondant coating from soaking in or cracking unevenly.

“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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