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Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Cake

"Vary this dessert by using different flavors of ice cream."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,463 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

1 9-inch round cake
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Crush the cookies finely in a food processor, or place them in a zip-top bag and crush them with a rolling pin.

  2. Mix the cookie crumbs with the melted margarine until evenly moistened. Press firmly onto the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch springform or round pan. Freeze for 15 minutes.

  3. Warm the hot fudge topping in the microwave in short bursts, stirring, until pourable. Spread it evenly over the frozen crust and freeze for 15 minutes to firm up.

  4. Let the vanilla ice cream soften at room temperature for 10 to 15 minutes until spreadable. Spread it over the fudge layer, smoothing the top. Freeze for at least 4 hours or overnight until firm.

  5. Just before serving, spread or pipe the whipped cream over the top of the ice cream layer.

  6. Arrange the 12 cherries evenly on the whipped cream.

  7. Dip a knife in a pan of hot water, wipe it dry, and cut the cake into wedges. Serve immediately, returning any leftovers to the freezer.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chocolate + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Vanilla + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12,294 recipes

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

Vanilla and cream share little aroma chemistry, yet 12,294 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