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Maxime Bilet's "Exploding" Chocolate Recipe

An easy way to turn plain chocolate into a fun kid-friendly treat with Pop Rocks and puffed rice cereal from the coauthor of "Modernist Cuisine."

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Maxime Bilet's "Exploding" Chocolate Recipe

Why it works: Butter and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,645 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Maxime Bilet's "Exploding" Chocolate Recipe

12 servings
Cook1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

463Calories
6 gProtein
21 gFat
62 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102

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. Butter + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Chocolate + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

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

  3. Chocolate + ricetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together509 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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