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Chocolate Creams

Small sugar balls coated in melted chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and chocolate 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 Creams

Ingredients

Directions

Make the centres

  1. Boil the sugar and water for ten minutes.

  2. Set the mixture in a dish of cold water and stir briskly while cooling.

  3. Shape into little balls and lay them on a buttered platter.

Coat and cool

  1. Melt the chocolate over a kettle of steaming water.

  2. Dip the balls in the melted chocolate and set aside to cool.

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Powdered sugar
Dissolves into the syrup and recrystallises into the soft, creamy centres while adding sweetness.
Chocolate
Forms a thin, firm shell around the centres as it cools and adds its flavour.

The step that matters

Stir the cooling syrup briskly. Stirring while the boiled sugar syrup cools encourages many tiny sugar crystals to form. This gives a smooth, creamy centre rather than a grainy one.

“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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