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Brownie Martini

"This is a delicious martini that goes down easily...maybe too easily. The butterscotch schnapps adds a delicious dessert quality to the drink. Sometimes for extra fancy presentation, I melt a handful of chocolate chips in the microwave, and then rim the martini glass with the melted chocolate. Then, place the glass mouth-side down on parchment paper and place in the freezer. This gives the glass a candy rim and gives each sip extra chocolate flavor."

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Brownie Martini

Why it works: Vanilla and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,391 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Brownie Martini

1 cocktail
Prep5 min

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By allrecipes. 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. Vanilla + coffeetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,391 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Vodka + creamtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together202 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

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

  4. Cream + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

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

  5. Vodka + coffeetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Vanilla and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 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