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Chocolate-Covered Oreo Cookie Cake

"Be warned: According to readers, if you serve this delectable treat as a birthday cake, you'll be starting a tradition. One that's going to be tough to break."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,399 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

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16 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

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

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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 + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Chocolate + cream cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together895 recipes

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

  4. Chocolate + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Butter + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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