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Cinnamon Hot Chocolate Mix

"You can throw together this cinnamon-accented hot chocolate mix in just moments."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cocoa and cinnamon work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 74 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

3 1/2 cups
Prep5 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. Add the non-fat dry milk powder, sucralose sweetener, non-dairy creamer, baking cocoa and ground cinnamon to a large bowl.

  2. Whisk everything together for about 2 minutes until the cocoa and cinnamon are evenly distributed and there are no lumps.

  3. Transfer the mix to an airtight jar or container and seal it tightly. Store in a cool, dry place.

  4. To serve, spoon a portion of the mix into a mug and stir in hot water until the powder is fully dissolved.

  5. Top each mug with a few miniature marshmallows and serve while hot.

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. Cocoa + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Milk powder + cinnamontop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together44 recipes

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

  3. Milk powder + cocoatop 47% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-undecalactone (coconut, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk powder, cinnamon):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  3. Flaxseedbetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk powder, cinnamon. 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).