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Chocolate Sandwiches

Chocolate sandwich cookies made by spreading melted chocolate and cream mixture on cake slices or wafers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt the chocolate in a saucepan.

  2. Add the cream and stir until smooth.

  3. Gradually mix in powdered sugar until the mixture is spreadable.

Assemble

  1. Spread the chocolate mixture on thin slices of Madeira cake or sunshine wafers.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  3. Chocolate + sugartop 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

Bitter chocolate
Provides the main flavour and sets firm as it cools into the filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and smoothness, loosening the melted chocolate into a spreadable mixture.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the filling and stiffens it to a spreadable consistency.
Madeira cake or sunshine wafers
Provide the crisp or tender base that the chocolate filling is spread on.

The step that matters

Gradually mix in powdered sugar. Adding sugar in small amounts lets it dissolve fully and gives a smooth, spreadable texture. Dumping it in at once can leave grittiness or a mixture that is too stiff to spread evenly.

“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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