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Lemon Poppy Seed Bunny Cookies Recipe

The idea for these delicious gluten free Lemon Poppy Seed Bunny Cookies for Easter came from Gluten Free Foodie Heaven and her Lemon Poppy Seed Bunnies recipe...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 166 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

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Ingredients

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

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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. Lemon + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Almond + poppy seedtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  3. Agave + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Flour + agavetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Almond + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, flour, agave, lemon, poppy seed):

  1. Orangeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Vanillathe original
  4. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, flour, agave, lemon, poppy seed. 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).