Name: Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients: 1 ounce chocolate; 1 teaspoon powdered sugar; boiled frosting

Why it works: Chocolate and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients

1 ounce chocolate
1 teaspoon powdered sugar
boiled frosting

Directions

Melt the chocolate.
Add the powdered sugar to the melted chocolate.
Mix into the boiled frosting until the desired darkness is achieved.

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.

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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.

Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,404 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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What each ingredient does

Chocolate: Adds deep chocolate flavour and colour to the frosting.
Boiled frosting: Forms the base of the frosting and carries the chocolate through it.
Powdered sugar: Adds sweetness and dissolves smoothly into the melted chocolate.

“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.