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Chocolate Hazelnut Candy Bars

"A peanut butter and white chocolate layer atop a mocha cappuccino graham-cracker base is sprinkled with peanuts and chocolate chips for a sweet treat that's ready in no time."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,279 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

32 bars

Ingredients

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

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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. Chocolate + peanuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Chocolate + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + peanuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Chocolate + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peanut

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

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  3. Filbertabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, sugar, butter. 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).