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Dark Chocolate Fondant with Hot Chocolate Sauce, Banana Fritters and Ice Cream

You could try making any of these sweet indulgences individually, or go for it and prepare them all for a showstopping dessert.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and sesame share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 43 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep1 hr
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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 + sesametop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together43 recipes

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

  2. Banana + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Banana + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Almond + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

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 (banana, vanilla, sugar, honey, buttermilk, chocolate, butter):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Peanutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, vanilla, sugar, honey, buttermilk, chocolate, butter. 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).