Skip to main content

Spooky Calzone Snake

"I came up with this idea for Halloween. I baked it in an S shape after combining an egg yolk with food coloring (I made several colors with several yolks) and painted to make a colorful striped snake. I used various food items to make a tongue, nostrils, and eyes (olives, peppercorns, fruit roll-up, etc). It was a hit with the kids! Serve with spaghetti sauce for dipping."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Spooky Calzone Snake

Why it works: Mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,093 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Spooky Calzone Snake

14 servings
Prep30 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

  • Dough
  • Filling

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Mozzarella cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,649 recipes

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

  4. Olive + mozzarella cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,773 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Ricotta cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together371 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, olive, flour, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, pepper):

  1. Basilbetter flavor fit
  2. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, olive, flour, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).