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Double Chocolate Mocha Biscotti Recipe

These Double Chocolate Mocha Biscotti are vegan and gluten-free. Because eggs are a main component of biscotti, I haven't seen a lot, if any vegan recipes, for...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Arrowroot and agave share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 28 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

about 14 biscotti

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Arrowroot + agavetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Flour + arrowroottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together499 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Coffee + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  4. Cocoa powder + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,587 recipes

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

  5. Cocoa powder + coffeetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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, cocoa powder, arrowroot, coffee, agave, chocolate):

  1. Hazelnutabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cocoa powder, arrowroot, coffee, agave, chocolate. 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).