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Mexican-Spiced Dark Chocolate Bark with Sea Salt and Pepitas

Dark chocolate is spiced with cinnamon and cayenne and sprinkled with sea salt and pepitas. This would make a very special holiday gift, and no one needs to know how easy it was!

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Why it works: Chocolate and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,808 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

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Serves 6
Cook10 min

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chocolate + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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