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Homemade Mini Chocolate Ice Cream Cones

You’ll notice that my chocolate cones are ultra black in color. That’s because I used black onyx cocoa which is a special Dutch-processed cocoa. It’s what makes Oreo cookies look so dark. If you can’t get black cocoa, the cones will be fine with either natural cocoa or dutch processed. Just make sure the cocoa is unsweetened.

By eatthelove · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Homemade Mini Chocolate Ice Cream Cones

Why it works: Flour and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,673 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Homemade Mini Chocolate Ice Cream Cones

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

846Calories
21 gProtein
27 gFat
125 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7

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

By eatthelove. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + cocoa powdertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,244 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Cocoa powder + sugartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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 almond

The recipe marks almond as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, butter, sugar, egg):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Hazelnutfits about as well
  3. Pistachiofits less well
  4. Cashew nutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cocoa powder, butter, sugar, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.