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Cream Cheese Cookies IV

"This is a quick and easy cream cheese cookie."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,746 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

3 dozen
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper or leave them ungreased.

  2. In a large bowl, beat the softened butter and cream cheese together until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes.

  3. Beat in the egg yolk and vanilla extract until fully combined.

  4. Add the yellow cake mix a little at a time and stir until a soft, uniform dough forms.

  5. Scoop rounded teaspoons of dough and roll them into balls, then place them about 2 inches apart on the baking sheets.

  6. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until the edges are set and lightly golden.

  7. Let the cookies cool on the sheets for 2 minutes, then move them to a rack to cool completely.

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

  1. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Cream cheese + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,934 recipes

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

  3. Butter + vanillatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19,983 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Butter + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118,511 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Egg + vanillatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,323 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, cream cheese, egg):

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Strawberryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Bananaabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cream cheese, egg. 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).