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Vegan Hot Cocoa Recipe

This quick and easy Gluten Free beverage can be simply made from scratch in a matter of minutes.

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Why it works: Agave and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 248 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegan Hot Cocoa Recipe

2 mugs

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

345Calories
7 gProtein
21 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
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.

By chow. 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. Agave + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cocoa powder + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Cocoa powder + agavetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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