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Ice Cream Drumsticks

By aspicyperspective · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,463 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

20 cones
Cook2 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place it in the freezer. Melt the chocolate chips, coconut oil and salt together in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, stirring until smooth, about 2 minutes.

  2. Spread the toppings in separate shallow dishes: sprinkles, chopped nuts, cereal, toffee bits, small candy, shredded coconut and dried fruits.

  3. Using a scoop, pack ice cream into each waffle cone, filling to the rim and smoothing the top. Mix the various flavors across the cones.

  4. Set the filled cones on the chilled parchment and freeze for 30 minutes until very firm.

  5. Let the melted chocolate cool for about 5 minutes so it thickens but stays fluid.

  6. Dip the frozen tip of each cone into the chocolate, turning to coat and letting the excess drip off.

  7. Immediately roll or sprinkle the wet chocolate with your chosen toppings, then return the cones to the freezer.

  8. Freeze for about 30 minutes until the chocolate is set, then serve straight from the freezer.

By aspicyperspective. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chocolate + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,107 recipes

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

  3. Chocolate + nutstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Coconut + nutstop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  5. Coconut + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,214 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nuts

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

  1. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  2. Almondbetter flavor fit
  3. Macadamia nutbetter flavor fit
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, coconut, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).