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Chocolate Fridge Cake

A great recipe for barbeques or just a quick snack that the family will love.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Chocolate Fridge Cake

Why it works: Biscuit and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 23 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chocolate Fridge Cake

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

470Calories
12 gProtein
24 gFat
51 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 6 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Syrupnot in our table0
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

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. Biscuit + hazelnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chocolate + hazelnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together350 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Chocolate + syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Biscuit + chocolatetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together334 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the hazelnut

The recipe marks hazelnut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (biscuit, milk, chocolate, syrup):

  1. Pistachiofits about as well
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Hazelnutthe original
  4. Chestnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, milk, chocolate, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.