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Chocolate-chip Cookie & Ice Cream Sandwiches

For a quick but decadent dessert - whack some special ice cream between cookies and watch your guests swoon

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,463 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + cherrytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Cream + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,786 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Cream + cherrytop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together825 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Chocolate + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together354 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, cream, sauce):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, cream, sauce. 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).