Name: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 1 can Garbanzo Beans, Rinsed And Drained, 15 Ounce Can; ¾ cups Protein Plus Peanut Flour; 1 Egg; ⅓ cups Coconut Sugar; ⅓ cups Peanut Butter (Natural); ⅓ cups Vanilla Almond Milk; ½ teaspoons Salt; 1 teaspoon Baking Powder; 1 Tablespoon Butter Extract (or Vanilla); ½ cups Cinnamon Pretzels, Roughly Crushed (I Used Kay’s Naturals Protein Pretzel Sticks, Cinnamon Toast); 6 ounces, weight Semi Sweet Chocolate Chip

Why it works: Coconut and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,294 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

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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.

Coconut + vanillatop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,294 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Peanut + coconuttop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together433 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Beans + peanuttop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together190 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Beans + vanillatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,293 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peanut, flour, egg, coconut, sugar, butter, vanilla):

Almondfits better
Macadamia nutfits better
Cashew nutfits better
Beansthe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Peanut	1 oz (28g)	161
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Almond Milk	1 cup (240ml) unsweetened	30
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Bean	not in our table	0

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies