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Minty Chocolate Christmas Cookie Recipe

This cookie combines thin chocolate wafers with a thick, creamy peppermint filling. A wonderful holiday or Christmas cookie.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Minty Chocolate Christmas Cookie Recipe

Why it works: Vanilla and peppermint work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 459 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Minty Chocolate Christmas Cookie Recipe

Makes about 3 dozen 1 1/2-inch sandwich cookies.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

902Calories
21 gProtein
32 gFat
126 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pastrynot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0
Waternot 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 101cookbooks. 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. Vanilla + pepperminttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together459 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Vanilla + cocoa powdertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Wheat + pepperminttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together106 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + wheattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 peppermint

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Clovefits about as well
  4. Peppermintthe original

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