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Chocolate Cream Bar

A chocolate bar with a fondant center flavored with vanilla.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Chocolate Cream Bar

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt the chocolate over a kettle.

  2. Stir in the fondant until well combined.

  3. Add a few drops of vanilla extract for flavor.

Assemble and set

  1. Spread a layer of plain fondant, 1 inch thick, on either side of the pan.

  2. Cover the layers with melted chocolate.

  3. Let it sit for a day before cutting into squares.

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.

Explore the science

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. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Egg + vanillatop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together27,347 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

Egg and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 27,347 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Provides the main chocolate flavor and the melted coating over the layers.
Plain fondant
Forms the sweet, creamy layers that give the bar its body.
Fondant lump
Adds more sweet, creamy fondant to the mixture with the melted chocolate.

The step that matters

Let it sit for a day before cutting. Resting lets the fondant and chocolate firm and set together, so the squares hold their shape when cut instead of smearing or crumbling.

“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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