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Freezer Caramel Drizzle Pie

"This is a delicious pie that people just love on a hot summer day. Great for Sunday dessert if prepared Saturday night."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Freezer Caramel Drizzle Pie

Why it works: Coconut and pecans work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 394 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Freezer Caramel Drizzle Pie

2 - 9 inch pies
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

946Calories
17 gProtein
84 gFat
39 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Toppingnot 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. Coconut + pecanstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Pecans + cream cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together465 recipes

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

  5. Butter + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,416 recipes

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

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

Swap the pecans

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

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Pecansthe original
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Peanutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, coconut, condensed milk, cream cheese, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.