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Avocado Chocolate Frosting/Pudding

This is great as cupcake frosting or to eat as pudding. Recipe frosts 12 cupcakes.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cocoa powder and avocado work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 23 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts, soy (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. Put the chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, making sure the bowl does not touch the water, and stir until fully melted and smooth, about 4 minutes. Let it cool for 5 minutes.

  2. Halve the avocados, remove the pits and peel, and scoop the flesh into a food processor or blender.

  3. Add the cocoa powder, agave syrup, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, soy creamer or almond milk, and kosher salt to the avocado.

  4. Add the cooled melted chocolate and blend for 1 to 2 minutes, scraping down the sides, until completely smooth and glossy.

  5. Taste and adjust sweetness with a little more agave or powdered sugar if needed, then blend again briefly.

  6. Spoon the mixture into serving bowls or a container and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so it thickens.

  7. Serve chilled as a pudding, or spread it over cakes or cupcakes as a frosting.

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. Cocoa powder + avocadotop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Chocolate + cocoa powdertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,587 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Chocolate + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Agave + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, cocoa powder, agave, syrup, sugar, vanilla, avocado):

  1. Hazelnutabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Cashew nutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, cocoa powder, agave, syrup, sugar, vanilla, avocado. 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).