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Chocolate Dipped Marshmallow and Fruit Skewers

So you’re in charge of bringing dessert to this year’s 4th picnic and can’t decide what to bring? Marshmallow and fruit skewers are easy and delicious!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 446 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep25 min
Cook2 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (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. Rinse and hull the strawberries if needed, then pat all the fruit dry with paper towels. Spread the graham cracker crumbs in a shallow dish.

  2. Place the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl. Heat in 20-second bursts, stirring after each, until smooth, about 2 minutes total.

  3. Working one at a time, dip each marshmallow into the melted chocolate to coat, let the excess drip off, then roll it in the graham cracker crumbs.

  4. Set the coated marshmallows on a parchment-lined tray and let the chocolate set at room temperature for about 10 minutes.

  5. Thread the strawberries, blueberries and chocolate-dipped marshmallows onto skewers, alternating fruit and marshmallows.

  6. Refrigerate the finished skewers for about 10 minutes until the chocolate is firm, then serve.

By tastykitchen. 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 + strawberrytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together446 recipes

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

  2. Strawberry + blueberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together427 recipes

    Shared aroma: 5-ethyl-3-hydroxy-4-methyl-2(5h)-furanone (spice).

  3. Chocolate + blueberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together103 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the blueberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, strawberry):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  4. Blueberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, strawberry. 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).