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Chocolate Banana PB Crumble Muffins with Peanut Butter Filling Recipe

These don’t fit into the healthy or good for you category. But they’re so freaking good. And sometimes, that’s just what you need. A special treat that we all...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and banana work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 308 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Chocolate Banana PB Crumble Muffins with Peanut Butter Filling Recipe

18 muffins

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1290Calories
30 gProtein
56 gFat
168 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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. Peanut + bananatop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together308 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  4. Butter + bananatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,536 recipes

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

  5. Peanut + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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 cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, peanut, sugar, flour, banana, egg):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Cocoathe original

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