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Soynut Butter Cookies

A cookie made with soy nut butter, vegetable shortening, brown sugar, soymilk, vanilla, egg, soy flour, all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda, topped with salted soynuts.

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Why it works: Sugar and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Soynut Butter Cookies

Oven375°F
Time7 to 9 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.

  2. Combine soynut butter, shortening, brown sugar, soymilk and vanilla in a large bowl.

  3. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended.

  4. Add egg and beat just until blended.

  5. Combine flour, salt and baking soda.

  6. Add to creamed mixture at low speed and mix just until blended.

Shape and bake

  1. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.

  2. Flatten slightly by pressing four soynuts in each cookie center in pinwheel design.

  3. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until set and just beginning to brown. Do not over brown.

  4. Cool 1 minute on baking sheet.

  5. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

825Calories
20 gProtein
32 gFat
110 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Toppingnot 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.

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Explore the science

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Vanilla + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Butter + vanillatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Soynut butter
Provides the main nutty flavor and fat, giving the cookies a tender, rich crumb.
Vegetable shortening
Adds fat that keeps the cookies tender and helps them hold their shape while baking.
Light brown sugar
Adds moisture and molasses flavor, and helps the cookies brown and stay soft.
Egg
Binds the dough and adds structure as the cookies set in the oven.
All-purpose flour
Provides the main structure that holds the cookies together as they bake.
Baking soda
Reacts to lift and spread the dough, and aids browning.

The step that matters

Bake only until set and just beginning to brown. Cookies keep firming as they cool on the sheet, so over-baking makes them dry and hard. Pulling them when edges are set and just golden keeps them soft in the center.

Swap the vanilla

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillathe original
  3. Figfits less well
  4. Lemonfits less well

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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