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Peanut Butter Cookies with Truvia® Baking Blend

"These classic peanut butter cookies are tender, fulfilling and simple to make. Made with Truvia® Baking Blend, these cookies have 70% less sugar* than the full sugar version."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Peanut Butter Cookies with Truvia® Baking Blend

Why it works: Peanut and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,176 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Peanut Butter Cookies with Truvia® Baking Blend

15 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

808Calories
27 gProtein
32 gFat
101 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Peanut + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Vanilla + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Butter + vanillatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Peanut + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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 peanut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Macadamia nutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

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