Why it works: Cream and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,466 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Chocolate Cream Drops
Ingredients
Directions
Mold the uncooked French Cream into cone-shaped forms using your fingers.
Place the formed cones on oiled paper and let them harden overnight or for several hours.
Melt the confectioners' chocolate in a bowl set over boiling water.
Once melted and the creams are firm, take each cream on a fork and dip it into the chocolate.
Roll the cream until fully coated, then place it on oiled or waxed paper to harden.
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.
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Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together5,466 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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