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Chai Affogato

Strong, spiced chai tea poured over rich, honey-sweetened ice cream makes a beautiful hot-and-cold dessert. The creamy homemade coconut milk ice cream is dairy free and egg free. For a super simple treat, buy a quality vanilla ice cream and pour extra-strong, freshly brewed chai tea over it.

By cookieandkate · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and honey match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 515 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

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Serves 8

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By cookieandkate. 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. Coconut + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together515 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Coconut + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  5. Cinnamon + teatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the arrowroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, milk, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, tea):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Arrowrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, milk, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, tea. 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).