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Chocolate Marquise with Coffee Crème Anglaise & Cocoa Nib Praline

This is pure pleasure cooking, it takes a while but is worth every minute

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Cocoa and coffee share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 91 recipes mention both. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

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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. Cocoa + coffeetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Chocolate + coffeetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  3. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Chocolate + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Cocoa + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together357 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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