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Chocolate Orange Muffins

These are very easy to make and taste gorgeous, soft and fluffy on the outside with a chocolate orange centre

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sunflower and orange work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chocolate Orange Muffins

Makes 7 muffins

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

948Calories
30 gProtein
23 gFat
152 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Sunflower + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Flour + sunflowertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together803 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  5. Sunflower + chocolatetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, egg, sunflower, milk, chocolate):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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