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Valentine’s Day Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Valentine’s Day Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies are easy and quick to make, dairy-, gluten- and grain-free and loaded with sunflower butter and heart candies!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Valentine’s Day Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Why it works: Vanilla and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Valentine’s Day Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Serves 22
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1016Calories
26 gProtein
41 gFat
132 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sunflower + chocolatetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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 vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, butter, sugar, egg, chocolate):

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Cherryfits less well
  4. Lemonfits less well

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