Name: Healthy Hazelnut Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 18 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 1-¼ cup Hazelnut Meal Or Ground Hazelnuts; ½ teaspoons Baking Powder; ½ teaspoons Vanilla Powder Or Extract; ¼ teaspoons Salt; 2 Tablespoons Honey Or Maple Syrup; 1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil, Melted; ⅛ cups Cacao Butter, Melted, Substitute Nut Butter Or Sunflower Butter; 3 Tablespoons Water

Why it works: Vanilla and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,294 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Healthy Hazelnut Cookies

Serves 10

Prep10 min

Cook18 min

Ingredients

1-¼ cup Hazelnut Meal Or Ground Hazelnuts
½ teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Vanilla Powder Or Extract
¼ teaspoons Salt
2 Tablespoons Honey Or Maple Syrup
1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil, Melted
⅛ cups Cacao Butter, Melted, Substitute Nut Butter Or Sunflower Butter
3 Tablespoons Water

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1133Calories

21 gProtein

54 gFat

143 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Sunflower	1 oz (28g) hulled	165
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Maple Syrup	1 tbsp (20ml)	52
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Hazelnut	not in our table	0
Nut	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	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.

Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,294 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Hazelnut + vanillatop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together279 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Hazelnut + coconuttop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together36 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Vanilla + honeytop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,262 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,467 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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 (vanilla, honey, coconut, butter):

Almondfits better
Macadamia nutfits better
Cashew nutfits better
Hazelnutthe original

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

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