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Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

Fudgy, moist brownies filled with chocolate chips and covered in peanut butter and chocolate. You’d never know they’re vegan!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

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 ↓

Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

Serves 8
Prep3 hr
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1305Calories
35 gProtein
44 gFat
188 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Nutsnot 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. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Almond + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

  4. Nuts + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the nuts

The recipe marks nuts as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, sugar, flour, cocoa powder, almond, vanilla, peanut):

  1. Hazelnutfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, sugar, flour, cocoa powder, almond, vanilla, peanut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.