Name: Egg-Free Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 30
Ingredients: 1-¼ cup Flour; 2-¾ teaspoons Baking Powder, Divided; ¼ teaspoons Salt; ½ cups Margarine, Softened; ⅔ cups Brown Sugar; 1-½ Tablespoon Water; 1-½ Tablespoon Oil; 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract; ¾ cups Quick Oats; ½ cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips; ½ cups White Chocolate Chips

Why it works: Vanilla and oats are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,532 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. 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.

Vanilla + oatstop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,532 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,020 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Flour + vanillatop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,241 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,404 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Oat	1/2 cup dry (40g)	154
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

Egg-Free Double Chocolate Chip Cookies