Skip to main content

Chocolate Butter Cream II

"There are only four simple ingredients in this recipe. This is one of few chocolate butter cream recipes that I have gotten to work!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Chocolate Butter Cream II

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 81,283 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Chocolate Butter Cream II

2 layer 9 inch cake
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cocoa powder + sugartop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cocoa powder + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and milk share little aroma chemistry, yet 77,875 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