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Chocolate Cookies

Chocolate cookies made with butter, sugar, egg, salt, unsweetened chocolate, flour, baking powder, and milk.

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Chocolate Cookies

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Chocolate Cookies

Ovenmoderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Cream the butter.

  2. Add sugar gradually.

  3. Add the well-beaten egg.

  4. Add the salt.

  5. Add the melted chocolate and beat well.

  6. Add the flour mixed and sifted with baking powder alternately with milk.

  7. Chill the dough.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll the dough very thin.

  2. Shape with a small cutter, first dipping the cutter in flour.

  3. Bake in a moderate oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

988Calories
29 gProtein
35 gFat
137 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Butter
Creamed with sugar to give the cookies a tender, rich texture.
Flour
Provides the structure that holds the cookies together as they bake.
Egg
Binds the dough and adds richness and structure.
Baking powder
Releases gas during baking so the cookies rise slightly and stay light.
Unsweetened chocolate
Supplies the chocolate flavour and dark colour of the cookies.
Sugar
Sweetens the dough and helps it brown and crisp at the edges.

The step that matters

Roll the dough very thin. Thin dough bakes quickly and evenly, so the cookies turn crisp rather than cakey. Thick dough needs longer baking and can dry out or burn at the edges before the centre sets.

“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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