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White and Dark Chocolate Blood Orange Cookies

I’m not going to lie to you. The stuff I wrote above about same-sex marriage and Maurice Sendak has nothing to do with food, much less these cookies. But this is a food blog and you come to my blog for recipes (or so I tell myself. How many of you actually make my recipes? Oh good, thank you, all three of you!). I could come up with a cutesy story of how this recipe uses white chocolate and dark chocolate, symbolizing interracial marriage, a legal issue that same sex marriage is often compared to. But even I’m not that tacky (white and dark chocolate? I think that might border on racist). Heck, I could even stretch the already thread thin metaphor and say the addition of the blood orange is me throwing some fruit into the mix, and we all know that fruit is slang for homosexual. But I’m not going to pander to you. These cookies are damn good cookies. They have nothing to do with what I wrote above. Enjoy them or not. Just make sure that the next time you have a chance to support same sex marriage you do. If you don’t, I’ll stop giving you recipes. And all three of you will be very very sad.

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Why it works: Orange and milk powder work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

24 cookies
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Orange + milk powdertop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Orange + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cinnamon + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Vanilla + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Butter + milk powdertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-undecalactone (coconut, creamy).

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