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Chocolate Creams

Chocolate Creams are sugar and water boiled into a string, cooled into a thick cream, flavored, shaped into balls, dipped in chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Chocolate Creams

Ingredients

Directions

Make the fondant

  1. Boil sugar and water until it forms a string.

  2. Set aside to cool.

  3. Stir until it becomes a thick cream.

  4. Flavor with vanilla or lemon.

  5. Shape into balls.

Coat and set

  1. Melt the chocolate.

  2. Dip the balls in the melted chocolate.

  3. Place the dipped balls on buttered plates in a cool place.

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.

Explore the science

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. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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
Forms the sweet base, and when boiled with water and then stirred, it crystallizes into a creamy texture.
Chocolate
Forms the outer coating that adds flavor and a firm shell around the sugar centre.

The step that matters

Stirring the cooled syrup into cream. Stirring the syrup only after it has cooled lets small sugar crystals form, giving a smooth, thick cream. If it is stirred while still hot, large crystals form and the texture turns grainy.

“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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