Name: Chocolate Petit Fours
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 1 cup FOR THE CAKE:; 1 whole Chocolate Devil's Food Cake Dry Mix; ⅓ cups Large Egg; 1 Tablespoon Water; 1 cup Neutral Oil (like Canola Or Grapeseed); ¼ cups FOR THE FROSTING:; ¼ cups Dark Chocolate Chips; 2 teaspoons Coconut Oil Or Butter

Why it works: Chocolate and coconut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,107 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Petit Fours

Serves 2

Prep25 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

1 cup FOR THE CAKE:
1 whole Chocolate Devil's Food Cake Dry Mix
⅓ cups Large Egg
1 Tablespoon Water
1 cup Neutral Oil (like Canola Or Grapeseed)
¼ cups FOR THE FROSTING:
¼ cups Dark Chocolate Chips
2 teaspoons Coconut Oil Or Butter

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

861Calories

10 gProtein

80 gFat

28 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Canola	1 tbsp (14g)	124
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cake	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0

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

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

Chocolate + coconuttop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,107 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,448 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).
Egg + coconuttop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,090 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the coconut

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

Vanillafits better
Coconutthe original
Raspberryfits about as well
Datesfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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