Name: Chocolate Cream Peanut Clusters
Ingredients: center cream; crushed roasted peanuts; melted chocolate

Why it works: Peanut and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,279 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Chocolate Cream Peanut Clusters

Ingredients

center cream
crushed roasted peanuts
melted chocolate

Directions

Prepare the center cream as you would for other chocolates.
Roll the center cream into small balls.
In a pan, mix crushed roasted peanuts into the melted chocolate until thick.
Dip the cream balls into the chocolate mixture.
Lay the dipped clusters on waxed paper to set.

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.

Peanut + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,279 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,466 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cream + peanuttop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together490 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).