Name: Nut Creams
Ingredients: any kind of nuts; Candy Dough; fresh or prepared Grated Coconut; Chocolate

Why it works: Coconut and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,107 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Nut Creams

Ingredients

any kind of nuts
Candy Dough
fresh or prepared Grated Coconut
Chocolate

Directions

Chop the nuts finely.
Stir the chopped nuts into the Candy Dough.
Form the mixture into balls.
Optionally, roll the balls in grated coconut or dip them in chocolate.

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.

Coconut + chocolatetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,107 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Nuts + chocolatetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together440 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Nuts + coconuttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together142 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).