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Mint Chocolate Cake Cones

"Ice cream cones filled with cake and topped with chocolatey mint frosting won't drip, but they'll certainly make you melt."

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Mint Chocolate Cake Cones

Why it works: Cream and chocolate 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 ↓

Mint Chocolate Cake Cones

18 cake cones
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

403Calories
8 gProtein
33 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Cakenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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 + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  2. Mint + chocolatetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together236 recipes

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

  3. Egg + chocolatetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  4. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Egg + minttop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together907 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream, chocolate):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.