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'French Toast' Cookie

Jennifer Saunders uses the fabulous flavours of cinnamon, maple syrup and bacon to create a truly unique breakfast inspired cookie. Top with jelly 'baked beans' for a cookie you won't forget quickly.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 511 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

'French Toast' Cookie

Makes one large biscuit
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

940Calories
24 gProtein
30 gFat
141 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot 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 bbcfood. 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. Cinnamon + beanstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together511 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Flour + beanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,080 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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 (sugar, butter, egg, flour, cinnamon, cocoa powder, maple syrup):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, egg, flour, cinnamon, cocoa powder, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.