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Gateaux Au Chocolat Chaud

Make this indulgent chocolate pudding just before serving to make sure the oozy sauce doesn't set

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Gateaux Au Chocolat Chaud

Why it works: Chocolate and cocoa work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 165 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Gateaux Au Chocolat Chaud

Makes 8-10

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By bbcgoodfood. 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. Chocolate + cocoatop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Cocoa + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together548 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-undecalactone (coconut, creamy).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 124,287 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, egg, sugar, butter, flour):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Macadamia nutbetter flavor fit
  3. Hazelnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, egg, sugar, butter, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).