Chocolate Filling for Ca!^e

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. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together15,404 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

3. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together19,053 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

4. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together53,532 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

5. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together77,875 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Sugar

Adds sweetness and, as it dissolves and thickens with the milk, helps give the filling body.

Sweet chocolate

Provides the main flavour and, as it melts into the milk, thickens the filling.

Sweet milk

Forms the liquid base that the sugar and chocolate dissolve into and thicken.

The step that matters

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sugar, chocolate):

1. Vanillafits better
2. Coconutfits better
3. Figfits better
4. Lemonthe original

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