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Peanut Butter & Salted Caramel Ice Cream

This luxurious pud combines two of the trendiest new flavours on dessert menus

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Peanut Butter & Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Peanut Butter & Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Serves 6

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

590Calories
22 gProtein
44 gFat
30 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Milk + peanuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Butter + peanuttop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Filbertfits about as well
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, cream, egg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.