Chocolate Wafers

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together81,283 recipes

   Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

3. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together124,287 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

5. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together9,128 recipes

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

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites

Whipped to create air and structure that gives the wafers their light texture.

Sifted flour

Provides structure so the batter holds its shape while baking.

Baker's chocolate

Supplies the chocolate flavor and color of the wafers.

The step that matters

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, cheese, milk, onion, egg, chocolate, flour):

1. Cinnamonfits better
2. Nutmegfits better
3. Capersfits better
4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cheese, milk, onion, egg, chocolate, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.