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Easy Cheese Cake

"An easy no-bake cheesecake using powdered whipped topping and flavored with cherry brandy. Decorate with chocolate syrup and fresh fruit slices, or just serve on its own."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 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

1 - 9 inch springform pan
Prep20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Sugar + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + cherry brandytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + cherry brandytop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + cream cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,793 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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