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Mint Chocolate Brownie Bites

A healthier cross between a cookie and a brownie bite with a touch of mint flavor.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Mint Chocolate Brownie Bites

Why it works: Yogurt and mint work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 497 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Mint Chocolate Brownie Bites

Serves 16
Prep10 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

939Calories
38 gProtein
27 gFat
131 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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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. Yogurt + minttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Butter + yogurttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,333 recipes

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

  5. Flour + cocoa powdertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,244 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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 mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, yogurt, sugar, egg, wheat, flour, cocoa powder):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Jalapenofits better
  4. Mintthe original

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