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Gingerbread Men Cookies

I find myself sufficiently satisfied with this gluten-free, dairy-free gingerbread cookie recipe and offer it to you for some Christmas cookie baking fun.

By elanaspantry · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and agave work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 71 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 36 gingerbread cookies

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By elanaspantry. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Ginger + agavetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Cinnamon + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, cinnamon, ginger, clove, agave, vanilla, syrup):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Cashew nutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cinnamon, ginger, clove, agave, vanilla, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).