Vegan Oatmeal-Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

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. Oats + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,532 recipes

   Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

2. Oats + peanuttop 7% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together368 recipes

   Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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

4. Vanilla + peanuttop 10% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together1,176 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together124,287 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the peanut

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

1. Almondfits better
2. Flaxseedfits better
3. Macadamia nutfits better
4. Peanutthe original

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