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Almond Butter Chocolate Chunk Recipe

Make your own (raw and vegan) chocolates, without all the nasties. You'll need coconut oil, almond butter and a range of other intriguing ingredients...

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Almond Butter Chocolate Chunk Recipe

20 people
Prep1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

410Calories
3 gProtein
39 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Chia Seednot in our table0
Berrynot 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 lovefood. 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. Almond + chiatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coconut + chiatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Coconut + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Vanilla + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

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

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

Swap the berry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, almond, butter, chia, vanilla, cinnamon):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Berrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, almond, butter, chia, vanilla, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.