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Banana Hazelnut Cookies

Ripe bananas mashed with honey and combined with hazelnut meal and baked into cookies. I simply love the combination

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Banana Hazelnut Cookies

Why it works: Banana and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,430 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Banana Hazelnut Cookies

Serves 10
Prep5 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

714Calories
21 gProtein
7 gFat
140 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Hazelnutnot 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. Banana + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Hazelnut + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Hazelnut + bananatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Banana + honeytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Honey + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,262 recipes

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

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

Swap the hazelnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, honey, vanilla, egg):

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Hazelnutthe original
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Macadamia nutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, honey, vanilla, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.