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Peanut Butter Marshmallow Bars

"An already yummy peanut butter brownie is topped with more JIF® Peanut Butter, then toasted marshmallows and chocolate syrup really take it over the top!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,621 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

The recipe

2 dozen bars

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, peanut (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Butter + peanuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Peanut + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Sugar + syruptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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