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Banana No Bake Cookies

Deeply-chocolatey and sweetened with bananas, these cookies are a great way to squash a sweet craving without overdosing on refined sugars. Use dairy-free chocolate chips and gluten-free oats and you've got a vegan and gluten free treat that'll satisfy anyone. They'll stay in tact at room temperature, but pop 'em in the fridge or freeze for a solid, fudgy treat.

By backtoherroots · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Banana No Bake Cookies

Why it works: Almond and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Banana No Bake Cookies

(18 cookies)
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

582Calories
16 gProtein
20 gFat
84 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Chia Seednot 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.

By backtoherroots. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Almond + chiatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Banana + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Chia + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, almond, butter, chia, cocoa powder, milk, vanilla):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Cherryfits about as well
  3. Blueberryfits about as well
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, almond, butter, chia, cocoa powder, milk, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.