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Pregnancy Cookies

The list of specialty ingredients that I use is fairly long in this recipe but I picked them because they added both flavor and nutrition to the cookie; nutrition that is good for both someone who is pregnant and for someone who is training for a long distance ride or race. Most of the specialty ingredients can be found at an upscale supermarket like Whole Foods, a specialty store like Trader Joe’s or a health food store. If you can’t find them or don’t want to spend the money on them (specialty ingredients can really add up) I’ve also listed a number of more common ingredient substitutions at the end of the recipe along with the reason as to why I included them in the recipe.

By eatthelove · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Teff and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

60 cookies
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (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. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and line baking sheets with parchment paper.

  2. Finely chop the candied ginger, dried apricots, and dried cherries, then stir them together with the golden raisins and toasted sunflower seeds in a bowl.

  3. In a separate large bowl, whisk the white whole wheat flour, teff flour, multigrain rolled cereal, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt, ground cinnamon, and ground ginger. Stir in the chia seeds.

  4. Beat the coconut oil and coconut palm sugar together until creamy. Add the blackstrap molasses, applesauce, vanilla extract, the two large eggs, and the egg yolk, beating well after each addition.

  5. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined, then fold in the chopped fruit, ginger, and seed mixture.

  6. Scoop rounded tablespoons of dough onto the prepared sheets, leaving space between them, and lightly flatten each one. Sprinkle the tops with the white granulated sugar.

  7. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the edges are set and golden and the eggs are cooked through. Cool on the sheets for 5 minutes, then move to a rack to cool completely.

By eatthelove. 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. Teff + chiatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Flour + tefftop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Coconut + chiatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Wheat + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, sugar, wheat, flour, teff, coconut, cinnamon):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, sugar, wheat, flour, teff, coconut, cinnamon. 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).