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Melt-In-The-Mouth Cashew Meringues

"These are cashew meringues that taste unbelievably good. Serve cookies as is or drizzle with melted chocolate or caramel."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Melt-In-The-Mouth Cashew Meringues

Why it works: Vanilla and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Melt-In-The-Mouth Cashew Meringues

100 cookies
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

828Calories
26 gProtein
27 gFat
118 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12

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. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  2. Vanilla + cashew nuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Cream + cashew nuttop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

Vanilla and sugar 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 cashew nut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Cashew nutthe original

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