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Chocolate Chip–Date Milk Shake Recipe

In Palm Springs and other inland locations in Southern California, supersweet Medjool dates can be seen weighing down palm tree branches for miles, and date-flavored...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 9,121 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

1 - 2 servings
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Pit the Medjool dates if needed and chop them roughly so they blend easily.

  2. Put the milk, chocolate chip ice cream and chopped dates into a blender.

  3. Blend on high for about 1 minute until smooth and thick, stopping to scrape down the sides once if needed.

  4. Pour into glasses, grate fresh nutmeg over the top and serve right away.

By chow. 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. Milk + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,121 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Cream + nutmegtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Chocolate + datestop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together86 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  5. Milk + datestop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nutmeg

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

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, chocolate, cream, dates. 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).