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Grasshopper Milk Shake Recipe

Hot days call for cool desserts, like this boozy milk shake.What to buy: Chocolate-mint wafer cookies like Thin Mints or Back to Nature's Fudge Mint Cookies...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Grasshopper Milk Shake Recipe

Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,466 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Grasshopper Milk Shake Recipe

1 - 2 servings
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

206Calories
2 gProtein
14 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Peppermintnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + minttop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Mint + creamtop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together594 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

Swap the mint

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

  1. Peppermintfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Mintthe original

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