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Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles

"These rich and creamy chocolate truffles with a toasted hazelnut inside can be drizzled with white chocolate and topped with a sprinkle of sea salt crystals for an elegant presentation."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles

Why it works: Hazelnut and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 350 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles

26 -30 truffles
Prep45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

633Calories
14 gProtein
45 gFat
48 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Syrupnot in our table0
Hazelnutnot 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. Hazelnut + chocolatetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together350 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Corn + hazelnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  5. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the hazelnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, cream cheese, corn, syrup, chocolate, milk):

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Pecansfits about as well
  4. Hazelnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, cream cheese, corn, syrup, chocolate, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.