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Heston Blumenthal's Ice Cream Cranachan Sundae Recipe

“Serve up a bit of Scottish hospitality with this recipe that takes classic cranachan and turns it into a delicious sundae. You can personalise it by using whichever whisky is your favourite.”

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,463 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

6 people
Prep15 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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 + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Oats + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,532 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Chocolate + whiskytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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