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Chocolate-Cinnamon Dip

"This light, creamy dip tastes great paired with strawberries, bananas, or apples. Try a spoonful on top of pound cake or angel food cake, it's delicious!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,808 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

The recipe

1 quart
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Beat the softened cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes.

  2. Add the marshmallow creme, vanilla extract, and ground cinnamon, then beat until fully combined.

  3. Beat in the chocolate-hazelnut spread until the mixture is evenly colored and smooth.

  4. Gently fold in the thawed whipped topping with a rubber spatula until no streaks remain.

  5. Transfer the dip to a serving bowl, cover, and chill for at least 30 minutes before serving.

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. Cinnamon + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cinnamon + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Vanilla + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Chocolate + hazelnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together350 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + hazelnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the hazelnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate, spread):

  1. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Hazelnutthe original
  4. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate, spread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).