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White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Oatmeal Cookies

"Oatmeal cookies are so tasty and this combination is a real treat! For crisper cookies, bake longer. If you leave the cookies on the cookie sheet for a few minutes before removing to cool to wire racks you will have a softer bottomed cookie."

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White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Oatmeal Cookies

Why it works: Vanilla and macadamia nut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Oatmeal Cookies

4 dozen cookies
Prep20 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1031Calories
27 gProtein
32 gFat
153 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Macadamianot 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.

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. Vanilla + macadamia nuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Vanilla + oatstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Flour + macadamia nuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 macadamia nut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pecansfits about as well
  3. Hazelnutfits about as well
  4. Macadamia nutthe original

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