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Chocolate Almond Truffle Pop

"Enjoy a dessert fit for the stars! This cake pop recipe was served at the 63rd Primetime Emmy® Awards Governor's Ball. It was created exclusively for Duncan Hines by the Team USA's World Cup Pastry Team. Try it yourself! This features Duncan Hines Triple Chocolate Cake Mix with chocolate ganache and almond butter. It's a rich, decadent treat."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Chocolate Almond Truffle Pop

Why it works: Almond and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,125 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Chocolate Almond Truffle Pop

40 cake pops
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

472Calories
10 gProtein
34 gFat
33 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cakenot in our table0
Waternot 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. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Chocolate + almondtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

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

  4. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  5. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, egg, almond, butter, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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