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White Chocolate Pear Skulls

A fun and easy recipe for Halloween or Day of the Dead! Perfect to let your imagination flow and decorate with kids, friends or family!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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White Chocolate Pear Skulls

Why it works: Chocolate and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 440 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

White Chocolate Pear Skulls

Serves 5
Prep25 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

282Calories
3 gProtein
11 gFat
44 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Pear1 medium (178g)101
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Seednot 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 tastykitchen. 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 + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pear + chocolatetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Pear + nutstop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

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

Swap the pear

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Pearthe original

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