Name: Chocolate and Peanut Butter Pretzel Bundles
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 8 min
Yield: 20
Ingredients: ⅓ cups Creamy Peanut Butter; ¼ cups Unsalted Butter, Softened To Room Temperature; ¾ cups Confectioners Sugar; ¼ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon; ⅛ teaspoons Ground Nutmeg; 3 ounces, weight Small Pretzel Snaps (3 Ounces If Roughly 40-48 Pretzels); 6 ounces, weight Dark Chocolate Chips; ⅓ cups Chocolate Hazelnut Spread; 1 teaspoon Coarse Sea Salt

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Pretzel Bundles

Serves 20

Prep30 min

Cook8 min

Ingredients

⅓ cups Creamy Peanut Butter
¼ cups Unsalted Butter, Softened To Room Temperature
¾ cups Confectioners Sugar
¼ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
⅛ teaspoons Ground Nutmeg
3 ounces, weight Small Pretzel Snaps (3 Ounces If Roughly 40-48 Pretzels)
6 ounces, weight Dark Chocolate Chips
⅓ cups Chocolate Hazelnut Spread
1 teaspoon Coarse Sea Salt

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

485Calories

9 gProtein

35 gFat

37 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Peanut	1 oz (28g)	161
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Hazelnut	not in our table	0
Spread	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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.

Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together11,917 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Cinnamon + hazelnuttop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together148 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Nutmeg + hazelnuttop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together64 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Peanut + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,279 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
Peanut + hazelnuttop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together18 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, earthy).

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

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, chocolate, hazelnut, spread):

Almondfits better
Pistachiofits better
Walnutfits better
Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, chocolate, hazelnut, spread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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