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Chocolate Cookie Crispies

A cookie made from chocolate cake mix, vegetable oil, water, egg, and cocoa pebbles cereal, baked until dark.

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Why it works: Chocolate and cocoa work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Chocolate Cookie Crispies

Oven350°F
Time11 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

  2. Beat cake mix, oil, water and egg in large bowl until well blended.

  3. Add cereal and mix well.

Bake and cool

  1. Drop tablespoonfuls of dough, 2 inches apart, onto ungreased baking sheets.

  2. Bake 11 minutes or just until cookies begin to brown.

  3. Cool on wire racks.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

352Calories
8 gProtein
28 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cakenot in our table0
Waternot 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 + cocoatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  3. Egg + cocoatop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together582 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Chocolate cake mix
Provides the flour, sugar and cocoa that form the cookie's base flavour and structure.
Egg
Binds the dough and adds structure as it sets in the oven.
Vegetable oil
Adds moisture and fat, keeping the cookies tender.
Cocoa pebbles cereal
Adds crunch and extra chocolate flavour to the cookies.

The step that matters

Baking until the edges just begin to brown. Cookies keep firming as they cool, so pulling them at the first sign of browning keeps them from drying out and becoming hard. Overbaking makes the cereal-studded cookies brittle.

Swap the cocoa

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Peanutfits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, egg. 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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