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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

Why it works: Flaxseed and wheat share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

12 cookies, or 6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1012Calories
28 gProtein
41 gFat
130 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Flaxseednot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Pastrynot 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 epicurious. 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. Flaxseed + wheattop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Flaxseed + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  4. Flaxseed + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Vanilla + cocoa powdertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the flaxseed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, sugar, vanilla, wheat, flour, cocoa powder):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Flaxseedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, sugar, vanilla, wheat, flour, cocoa powder. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.