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Dried Cherry-Chocolate Muffins

Sweet, tangy cherries flavor these dark chocolate muffins for a regal treat at brunch or coffee time or for dessert. For the best results, have all the ingredients at room temperature. The muffins have an excellent crusty exterior, so you will want to butter the muffin cups rather than use paper liners, which may come away with the crust. For a decorative touch, top each filled muffin cup with either a whole or half hazelnut before baking.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Dried Cherry-Chocolate Muffins

Why it works: Vanilla and hazelnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 279 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Dried Cherry-Chocolate Muffins

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1087Calories
30 gProtein
35 gFat
160 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Hazelnutnot 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 williamssonoma. 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. Vanilla + hazelnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Chocolate + hazelnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together350 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Flour + hazelnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together464 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + buttermilktop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,721 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the hazelnut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutthe original
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Pecansfits less well

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