Name: How to Make Chocolate Cream Drops
Ingredients: Sweet chocolate, pounded fine; Ground cinnamon; Cream; Wax paper

Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,466 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

How to Make Chocolate Cream Drops

Ingredients

Sweet chocolate, pounded fine
Ground cinnamon
Cream
Wax paper

Directions

Prepare a chocolate warmer by placing a smaller pan inside a larger one filled with water; bring the water to a boil.
Add the pounded sweet chocolate to the warmer and stir until it dissolves into a thin paste; mix in a little ground cinnamon.
Roll out the cream into a strip and cut it into equal pieces; roll each piece into balls.
Place the cream balls on trays to dry slightly so they hold their shape.
Pour melted chocolate onto a warm marble slab and add the cream balls; coat them in chocolate.
Drop the coated balls onto sheets of tin covered with wax paper using your fingers.
Set the drops in a cool place until the chocolate hardens; in summer, use an ice chest.

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.

Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,466 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Chocolate + cinnamontop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,808 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Cinnamon + creamtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,510 recipes

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