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Chocolate Hazelnut Tartufo

"My variation on a delicious desert we experienced in Rome this spring. Called tartufo because it resembles a truffle."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Chocolate Hazelnut Tartufo

Why it works: Hazelnut and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 279 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chocolate Hazelnut Tartufo

8 balls
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

581Calories
18 gProtein
28 gFat
65 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 12 ingredients. The other 5 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
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Spreadnot in our table0
Coffeenot in our table0
Candy Barnot in our table0
Toppingnot 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 + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Chocolate + hazelnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together350 recipes

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

  5. Cream + spreadtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

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

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 (milk, cream, sugar, egg, chocolate, spread, vanilla):

  1. Hazelnutthe original
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits less well
  4. Walnutfits less well

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