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Nut Chocolates

A chocolate confection made by mixing melted fondant and chocolate with chopped nuts, then spooned onto wax paper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 440 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Nut Chocolates

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Melt the fondant in a double boiler.

  2. Melt the chocolate separately.

Combine and shape

  1. Mix the melted chocolate with the fondant.

  2. Stir in the chopped nuts.

  3. Drop spoonfuls onto wax paper.

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. Chocolate + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Fondant
Sugar-based paste that sweetens the candy and gives it a soft, smooth body.
Chocolate
Adds rich flavour and fat that sets firm as the candy cools.
Chopped nuts
Add crunch and a toasted, nutty contrast to the soft base.

The step that matters

Melting the chocolate gently. Chocolate can seize or scorch if overheated, turning grainy and dull. Gentle indirect heat, like a double boiler, keeps it smooth and glossy for mixing.

“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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