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Macadamia Coconut Icebox Cookies

"A great refrigerator cookie with a tropical twist. This dough freezes well and only takes a few minutes to thaw and then bake."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Macadamia Coconut Icebox Cookies

Why it works: Macadamia nut and coconut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 84 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Macadamia Coconut Icebox Cookies

6 dozen

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1081Calories
22 gProtein
45 gFat
146 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 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
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Macadamianot 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. Macadamia nut + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + macadamia nuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Vanilla + oatstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Flour + macadamia nuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the macadamia nut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, vanilla, flour, oats, coconut):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Macadamia nutthe original
  3. Cashew nutfits about as well
  4. Flaxseedfits about as well

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