Name: Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients: two tablespoonfuls sweet cream; 2 tablespoonfuls cocoa

Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate frosting made with sweet cream and cocoa, thickened with confectioner's sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients

Why it works: Cream and cocoa work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 304 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients

two tablespoonfuls sweet cream
2 tablespoonfuls cocoa

Directions

Combine two tablespoonfuls sweet cream and two tablespoonfuls cocoa or grated chocolate.
Thicken with confectioner's sugar.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

206Calories

2 gProtein

14 gFat

17 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51

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

By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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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.

Cream + cocoatop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together304 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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What each ingredient does

Sweet cream: Provides the liquid base and moisture that the frosting is built on.
Cocoa: Supplies the chocolate flavor and deep color of the frosting.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.