Name: Dark Chocolate Holiday Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 15
Ingredients: 1-¼ cup Gluten-free Bittersweet Chocolate Chips – I Used 60% Cocoa; ¾ cups Almond Flour; ⅛ cups Unsweetened Cocoa Powder; ½ teaspoons Baking Powder; ¼ teaspoons Salt; ¼ cups Butter, Unsalted, Room Temperature; ½ cups Coconut Palm Sugar; ½ teaspoons Vanilla Extract; 1 Large Egg

Why it works: Almond and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,093 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Dark Chocolate Holiday Cookies

Serves 15

Prep20 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

1-¼ cup Gluten-free Bittersweet Chocolate Chips – I Used 60% Cocoa
¾ cups Almond Flour
⅛ cups Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
½ teaspoons Baking Powder
¼ teaspoons Salt
¼ cups Butter, Unsalted, Room Temperature
½ cups Coconut Palm Sugar
½ teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1 Large Egg

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1141Calories

24 gProtein

54 gFat

136 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Almond	1 almond (1.2g)	7
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	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.

Almond + coconuttop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,093 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
Almond + flourtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,673 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Chocolate + cocoatop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together165 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
Chocolate + almondtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,733 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Chocolate + coconuttop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,107 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, almond, flour, cocoa powder, butter, coconut, sugar):

Cashew nutfits better
Hazelnutfits better
Macadamia nutfits better
Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, almond, flour, cocoa powder, butter, coconut, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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