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By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and cocoa powder work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 541 recipes mention both. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

The recipe

12 cupcakes

Ingredients

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

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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. Coffee + cocoa powdertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Cream + cocoa powdertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together825 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

  4. Cream + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,649 recipes

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

  5. Cream + coffeetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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