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Chocolate Anise Cookies with Dried Cherries

"These gourmet chocolate cookies flavored with crushed anise seeds are full of chocolate chips and dried tart cherries."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Chocolate Anise Cookies with Dried Cherries

Why it works: Chocolate and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,497 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

Chocolate Anise Cookies with Dried Cherries

2 dozen cookies
Prep20 min
Cook7 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

926Calories
22 gProtein
27 gFat
147 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 11 ingredients. The other 4 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
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Anisenot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Coffeenot 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.

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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. Chocolate + coffeetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  2. Flour + anisetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  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 + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 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 anise

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Anisethe original
  4. Gingerfits about as well

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