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Ravioli Dolci

"These are the tastiest little ravioli-like cookies, filled with your favorite preserves (I like cherry). Everybody likes them."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and cherry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 890 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

The recipe

64 cookies
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

  2. Beat the softened butter and white sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in the beaten egg, vanilla extract, almond extract and grated lemon zest.

  3. In a separate bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt. Gradually stir into the butter mixture until a soft dough forms.

  4. Divide the dough in half, wrap, and chill for 20 minutes to firm up.

  5. On a lightly floured surface, roll one half of the dough to about 1/8 inch (3 mm) thick. Cut into 2-inch (5 cm) rounds. Spoon a small amount of cherry preserves onto half of the rounds.

  6. Roll the second half of the dough thinly and cut into matching rounds. Place a plain round over each preserve-topped round, then press the edges together to seal like ravioli.

  7. Arrange the sealed ravioli on the prepared sheets. Bake for 10 minutes, until the edges are golden.

  8. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then dust with confectioners' sugar.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Vanilla + cherrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  3. Almond + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Almond + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Vanilla + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Peachbetter flavor fit
  3. Apricotbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, almond, flour, cherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).