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Champagne Cocktail

"A delicious and refreshing drink. The combination of the ice cream and the champagne is very addictive."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Champagne Cocktail

Why it works: Vanilla and champagne work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 58 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Champagne Cocktail

16 (1/2 cup) servings
Prep5 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

63Calories
0 gProtein
5 gFat
1 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Champagnenot 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 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 + champagnetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Cream + champagnetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together83 recipes

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

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

Swap the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, champagne):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, champagne. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.