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Orange, Coconut and Mint Drop Cookies

Nice combination of flavors in this super easy cookie.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and mint work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 163 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep6 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and place a baking sheet ready for the cookies.

  2. Beat the softened butter and granulated sugar together until light and fluffy.

  3. Beat in the beaten egg, then the pure orange extract and pure mint extract.

  4. Stir in the whole milk until combined.

  5. Fold in the self-rising flour and coconut flakes until a soft, sticky dough forms.

  6. Drop heaping spoonfuls of the dough onto the baking sheet, spacing them apart.

  7. Bake for 8 minutes until the cookies are set and golden at the edges and the centres are cooked through.

  8. Let the cookies cool on the sheet for 2 minutes, then move them to a rack to finish cooling.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Coconut + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  2. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Orange + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together548 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Milk + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,642 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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