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Chocolate Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies

These are the easiest cookies you will ever make! Love the no-fuss, less-mess prep and bake in this recipe. The cream in the middle makes this a top-notch cookie!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chocolate Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies

Why it works: Almond and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,961 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Chocolate Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies

Serves 36
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

371Calories
8 gProtein
28 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cakenot 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 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.

  1. Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Chocolate + almondtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Egg + vanillatop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together27,347 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

Egg and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 27,347 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (chocolate, egg, vanilla):

  1. Hazelnutfits about as well
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Pecansfits about as well
  4. Cocoafits about as well

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