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Festive Cranberry Cream Cheese Squares

"These layered bar cookies are a great ending to any fall meal."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 36 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

20 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Cream cheese + cranberrytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Oats + berrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Oats + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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