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Coffee Gelatin Dessert

"Sweetened coffee flavored gelatin is best eaten with a dollop of whipped cream on top. This is a fabulous dessert I once enjoyed at a Japanese restaurant, of all places!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Gelatin and coffee work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 146 recipes mention both. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

5 servings
Prep10 min
Cook5 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. Pour 1 1/3 cups water into a saucepan and sprinkle the 3 envelopes of unflavored gelatin over it. Let stand 5 minutes to soften.

  2. Set the pan over low heat and stir until the gelatin fully dissolves, about 2 minutes. Do not let it boil.

  3. Stir in the white sugar until dissolved, then stir in the hot brewed coffee and the lemon juice.

  4. Pour the mixture into a serving dish or individual glasses. Refrigerate at least 3 hours, or until firm.

  5. Spoon the sweetened whipped cream on top of each serving just before eating.

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. Gelatin + coffeetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Gelatin + creamtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Sugar + gelatintop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Coffee + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, gelatin, coffee, cream):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, gelatin, coffee, cream. 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).