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Milk Chocolate Semifreddo with Star Anise Carrot Cake

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and carrot work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

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Makes 6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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 + carrottop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Carrot + star anisetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Milk + wheattop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,416 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Olive + wheattop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Chocolate + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

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

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