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Ice Cream Truffles

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pecans and macadamia nut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

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

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By williamssonoma. 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. Pecans + macadamia nuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

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

  2. Almond + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together693 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Vanilla + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Macadamia nut + pistachiotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Almond + macadamia nuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, pecans, macadamia nut, pistachio, cream, chocolate):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, pecans, macadamia nut, pistachio, cream, chocolate. 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).