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Gold Rush Cobbler

I threw this together one night when I had a hankering for something warm underneath my ice cream. I didn’t know what to expect with 4 ingredients—graham crackers, chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk and pecans—but it was really tasty!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Gold Rush Cobbler

Why it works: Chocolate and pecans work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 804 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Gold Rush Cobbler

Serves 12
Prep5 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

390Calories
11 gProtein
20 gFat
40 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Pecan1 half (4g)20

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.

  1. Chocolate + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

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

  2. Condensed milk + chocolatetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Milk + pecanstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Condensed milk + pecanstop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together127 recipes

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

Swap the pecans

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

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Pecansthe original
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Cocoafits about as well

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