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Mint Cookie Trifle

This is a trifle made of Thin Mint cookies, chocolate pudding, and peppermint-flavored whipped topping. Just like the cookies themselves, this dessert does not usually last more than a few days in my house.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Mint Cookie Trifle

Why it works: Peppermint and mint share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mint Cookie Trifle

Serves 12
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

304Calories
9 gProtein
17 gFat
29 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 5 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Puddingnot in our table0
Toppingnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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. Peppermint + minttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

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

  3. Chocolate + pepperminttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together448 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Milk + pepperminttop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together479 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Chocolate + minttop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together236 recipes

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

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

Swap the mint

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Mintthe original

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