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Amaretti Peaches with Honey & Chocolate

An Italian classic with a twist, the perfect end to an Italian Sunday lunch

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 88 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

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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. Peach + chocolatetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + cocoa powdertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,587 recipes

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

  3. Biscuit + almondtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Peach + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Chocolate + cocoatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together165 recipes

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

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 (peach, biscuit, almond, chocolate, egg, honey, cocoa powder):

  1. Hazelnutbetter flavor fit
  2. Pistachiobetter flavor fit
  3. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, biscuit, almond, chocolate, egg, honey, cocoa powder. 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).