Name: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: ½ cups Milk; 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract; 1 cup Flour; 1 teaspoon Baking Powder; ¼ teaspoons Salt; 1 cup Sugar (half White Sugar, Half Brown Sugar If You Have It); 6 Tablespoons Butter, Softened; 2 whole Eggs, Beaten; 1 cup Peanut Butter (chunky Is My Favorite For This Recipe, But Creamy Is Just Fine Too); 2-½ cups Chocolate Chips, Semi Sweet; 1 container Pre-made Frosting, 16 Ounce Size (vanilla Is Best); 2 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder; 3 Tablespoons Half And Half/heavy Cream/milk

Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

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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.

Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,020 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Peanut + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,279 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

Vanilla and sugar 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 peanut

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

Almondfits better
Hazelnutfits better
Chestnutfits better
Peanutthe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Peanut	1 oz (28g)	161
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes