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Chocolate Wafers

Chocolate wafers are thin, baked cookies made with sugar, Crisco, flour, chocolate, eggs, baking soda, vanilla, and salt.

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Why it works: Chocolate and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Chocolate Wafers

Ovenmoderate oven
Timeseven to ten minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Cream Crisco and sugar together.

  2. Add melted chocolate.

  3. Add eggs well beaten.

  4. Add vanilla extract.

  5. Add flour, salt, and soda.

  6. Mix and turn out onto floured baking board.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll out thin.

  2. Cut with small cutter.

  3. Lay on Criscoed tin.

  4. Bake from seven to ten minutes in moderate oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

749Calories
21 gProtein
15 gFat
126 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cakenot 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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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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

  3. Flour + vanillatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flour
Provides the structure that holds the wafers together as they bake.
Eggs
Bind the dough and add richness and structure to the wafers.
Crisco
Adds fat that gives the wafers a tender, crisp texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the wafers and helps them brown and crisp as they bake.
Baking soda
Reacts to lift the dough slightly and promote gentle browning.

The step that matters

Roll out thin. Thin dough bakes quickly and evenly into crisp wafers, while thicker dough stays soft and cakey in the centre. Baking time is short, so thickness strongly affects the final texture.

“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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