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Nikki's Healthy Cookie Recipe

A remarkable healthy cookie recipe - banana-batter, shredded coconut, dark chocolate chunks, and oats. Butter-less, flour-less, egg-less, and potentially sugar-less cookies make great after school or after work treats.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Nikki's Healthy Cookie Recipe

Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,514 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Nikki's Healthy Cookie Recipe

Makes about 3 dozen bite-sized cookies.

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Banana + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Vanilla + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  5. Banana + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together549 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, coconut, oats, almond, cinnamon, chocolate):

  1. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, coconut, oats, almond, cinnamon, chocolate. 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).