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Chocolate Raisin Biscuit Bars

This is so simple to make, taking around 20 minutes including colling this is such a quick treat! Whats more - kids love making it too!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Chocolate Raisin Biscuit Bars

Makes 6 slices

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

634Calories
13 gProtein
36 gFat
67 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Marshmallownot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Biscuit + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Milk + raisintop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

  5. Chocolate + biscuittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together334 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, chocolate, butter, biscuit):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

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