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Chocolate-Hazelnut Soy Ice Cream

"I like ice cream, chocolate and hazelnuts. This combination was obvious. This ice cream is great smashed between vegan chocolate chip cookies!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chocolate-Hazelnut Soy Ice Cream

Why it works: Tofu and soy milk share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Chocolate-Hazelnut Soy Ice Cream

4 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

392Calories
17 gProtein
22 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Soy Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Tofu100g firm76
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Syrupnot in our table0
Coffeenot 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. Tofu + soy milktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Hazelnut + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Hazelnut + chocolatetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together350 recipes

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

  5. Soy milk + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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 (tofu, soy milk, syrup, vanilla, chocolate):

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

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