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Carrot Apple Chocolate Chip Muffins

These muffins will knock your socks off. They’re just as delicious cold as they are fresh out of the oven, and they have the softest, fluffiest texture.

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Why it works: Chocolate and carrot work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12
Prep10 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat, peanut, tree nuts (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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Lightly grease a 12-cup muffin tin.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, mashed banana, agave nectar (or honey), olive oil, peanut butter, almond milk and sugar in the raw until smooth.

  3. Stir the shredded apple and shredded carrots into the wet mixture.

  4. In a separate bowl, whisk the whole wheat flour, rolled oats, baking soda, sea salt and ground cinnamon together.

  5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir just until combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.

  6. Divide the batter evenly among the 12 muffin cups, filling each about three-quarters full. Sprinkle the tops generously with extra sugar in the raw.

  7. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the tops are golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, meaning the eggs are fully set.

  8. Cool the muffins in the pan for 5 minutes, then move them to a wire rack to cool completely.

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. Chocolate + carrottop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Banana + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Peanut + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Olive + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together799 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Banana + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together308 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

Flavor stand-ins for the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, banana, agave, olive, apple, sugar, butter):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  3. Hazelnutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, banana, agave, olive, apple, sugar, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).