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Chocolate Cream Filling

A chocolate filling made by melting chocolate, adding cream, sugar, flour, and vanilla, then cooling and spreading on cake.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Cream Filling

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.

  2. Add the cream and scald it.

  3. Mix the powdered sugar and flour, then stir into the scalded cream.

  4. Cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Finish and spread

  1. When cool, add vanilla extract and spread on cake.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  3. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Chocolate + flourtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Baker's chocolate
Supplies chocolate flavour and cocoa butter, which firms the filling as it cools.
Sweet cream
Adds fat and moisture, giving the filling a smooth, rich body.
Flour
Thickens the cream by starch swelling when heated, giving the filling body.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the filling and dissolves smoothly into the hot cream.

The step that matters

Mix the powdered sugar and flour, then stir into the scalded cream.. Flour and sugar mixed together first disperse more evenly, helping prevent lumps when they meet the hot cream. Stirring keeps the starch from clumping while it thickens.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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