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Sticks and Stones Candy Bark

"From the kitchen of Nestle, a butterscotch chocolate and peanut butter confection with pretzels and chocolate covered raisins."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Sticks and Stones Candy Bark

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 ↓

Sticks and Stones Candy Bark

3 dozen
Prep15 min
Cook3 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

378Calories
9 gProtein
23 gFat
38 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Roasted Peanutnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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

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

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

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

  4. Peanut + raisintop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + raisintop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, peanut, butter):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Raisinthe original

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