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Marzipan Caramel Apples with Sesame and Almond Recipe

A Basic Caramel Apple is delicious as is, but it's like a blank canvas: It can have endless mixtures of flavors layered on. Here, a caramel-coated Granny Smith...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 203 recipes mention both. Both carry acetylpyrazine, which smells roast. The science ↓

The recipe

8 apples

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Almond + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

  2. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Sesame + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  4. Sugar + syruptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Almond + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,198 recipes

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

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