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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: Coconut and berry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

20 people
Prep1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Coconut + berrytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Almond + chiatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Coconut + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,294 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

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

  5. Almond + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the berry

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

  1. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Bananabetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  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. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).