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Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies

"A marvelously, moist cookie for the chocoholic. Quick and easy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies

Why it works: Raisin and oats work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 218 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies

4 - 5 dozen

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

568Calories
14 gProtein
30 gFat
61 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cakenot in our table0
Puddingnot 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 allrecipes. 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. Raisin + oatstop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + oatstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together752 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Egg + raisintop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,556 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  5. Egg + oatstop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,317 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, egg, oats):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

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