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Chocolate, Cranberry & Macadamia Brownies

Leftover cranberry sauce? Use it as an excuse to make these delicious chocolate, nutty cake squares

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Chocolate, Cranberry & Macadamia Brownies

Why it works: Flour and macadamia nut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Chocolate, Cranberry & Macadamia Brownies

CUTS INTO 12 squares
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

947Calories
22 gProtein
27 gFat
153 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Macadamia Nutnot in our table0
Saucenot 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. Flour + macadamia nuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Chocolate + macadamia nuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Flour + cocoa powdertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,244 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, butter, sugar, flour, cocoa powder, egg, macadamia nut):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, butter, sugar, flour, cocoa powder, egg, macadamia nut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.