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Double Coffee Cream

No oven needed. Just minimum use of gelatin keeps it absolutely creamy! Sweet and slightly bitter taste.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,339 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 5

Ingredients

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

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

  2. Vanilla + rumtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together727 recipes

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

  3. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

  4. Coffee + rumtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together138 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + sugartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

Vanilla and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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