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Simple and Amazing Peanut Butter-Chocolate Fudge

"This is such an easy recipe to throw together with a few ingredients. It always gets rave reviews. The recipe uses peanut butter, but you can substitute any nut butter or sunflower seed butter. A favorite of mine is to use hazelnut butter. Slice into triangles and top with some whipped cream (I use chilled coconut milk) and orange zest."

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Simple and Amazing Peanut Butter-Chocolate Fudge

Why it works: Chocolate and peanut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,279 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Simple and Amazing Peanut Butter-Chocolate Fudge

24 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

368Calories
9 gProtein
23 gFat
35 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52

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. Chocolate + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,279 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + maple syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

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

  4. Chocolate + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Butter + maple syruptop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,084 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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 (chocolate, butter, maple syrup):

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, butter, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.