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Chocolate-Mint Brownie Cookies

"All of the richness of a brownie in cookie form! Mint chocolate chips and peppermint extract give these cookies an extra something special."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Chocolate-Mint Brownie Cookies

Why it works: Peppermint and mint share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Chocolate-Mint Brownie Cookies

6 dozen cookies
Prep20 min
Cook9 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

851Calories
21 gProtein
27 gFat
126 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 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
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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. Peppermint + minttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Vanilla + pepperminttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together459 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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 mint

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Mintthe original

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