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Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate

"Rich and creamy pumpkin spice hot chocolate is a great treat for a fall day, quiet evening, or to share with friends and family!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and pumpkin work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 230 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

2 drinks
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a small saucepan, warm the milk and heavy whipping cream over medium-low heat until steaming, about 3 minutes. Do not let it boil.

  2. Whisk the cocoa powder, pumpkin puree, and pumpkin pie spice into the warm milk until smooth.

  3. Add the milk chocolate chips and whisk over low heat for about 2 minutes until fully melted and smooth.

  4. Pour the hot chocolate evenly into two mugs.

  5. Top each mug with whipped cream. If using, sprinkle the ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg over the top (optional).

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chocolate + pumpkintop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Chocolate + cocoa powdertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,587 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Pumpkin + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,744 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,647 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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