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Chocolate Icing

Chocolate icing made by mixing melted chocolate and butter into boiled icing and beating until combined.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,543 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chocolate Icing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add melted chocolate and butter to boiled icing.

  2. Beat the mixture until well combined.

  3. Use the icing as desired.

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.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Melted chocolate
Adds chocolate flavor and color, and thickens the icing as it cools.
Butter
Adds richness and a smoother, glossier texture to the icing.
Boiled icing
Forms the sweet base that the chocolate and butter are blended into.

“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.

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