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Cinder Toffee Ice Cream

Honeycomb gives a gorgeous caramel crunch to this vanilla ice cream, and it's easy to create a homemade version

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Cinder Toffee Ice Cream

Why it works: Syrup and condensed milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cinder Toffee Ice Cream

Makes approx 2 litres

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

261Calories
8 gProtein
13 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Syrupnot 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. Syrup + condensed milktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  5. Sunflower + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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