Name: Honey Nut Danish Braid
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: ¼ cups Granulated Sugar; ⅓ cups Whole Almonds, Processed In A Blender Into An Almond Meal; ⅛ teaspoons Salt; ¼ cups Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature, Sliced; 2 whole Large Eggs, Divided; 1 box (2 Sheets Per Box) Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets; ½ cups Almonds, Chopped; ¼ cups Honey For Drizzling; 2 Tablespoons Milk

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Honey Nut Danish Braid

Serves 6

Prep15 min

Cook25 min

Ingredients

¼ cups Granulated Sugar
⅓ cups Whole Almonds, Processed In A Blender Into An Almond Meal
⅛ teaspoons Salt
¼ cups Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature, Sliced
2 whole Large Eggs, Divided
1 box (2 Sheets Per Box) Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets
½ cups Almonds, Chopped
¼ cups Honey For Drizzling
2 Tablespoons Milk

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

449Calories

15 gProtein

25 gFat

43 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 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
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Almond	1 almond (1.2g)	7
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Pastry	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.

Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Honey + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,336 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).
Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,245 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Almond + honeytop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,069 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Butter + honeytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,327 recipes

Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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

Swap the almond

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

Almondthe original
Pecansfits about as well
Walnutfits less well
Peanutfits less well

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

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