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Fresh Fruit Flan

"A beautiful fresh fruit dessert, this is not your regular 'fruit pizza.' This recipe was given to me by a great cook and great friend. You can substitute your favorite fruits or berries for those in this recipe."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and kiwifruit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep30 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

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

  • Crust
  • Filling
  • Fruit
  • Glaze

Directions

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

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, white sugar and confectioners' sugar.

  2. Cut in the butter until the mixture is crumbly. Add the vegetable oil, egg and vanilla extract and mix until a soft dough forms.

  3. Press the dough evenly into the bottom and up the sides of a 10-inch tart pan or pie plate. Bake for about 12 minutes, until golden. Cool completely.

  4. Beat the softened cream cheese, white sugar and vanilla extract until smooth. Spread the filling evenly over the cooled crust.

  5. Arrange the strawberries, blueberries and kiwifruit slices over the filling in an attractive pattern.

  6. In a small saucepan, whisk the cornstarch and white sugar with the water, orange juice and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until thickened and clear, about 2 minutes.

  7. Let the glaze cool slightly, then spoon or brush it over the fruit. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before slicing and serving.

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. Vanilla + kiwifruittop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + cream cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,934 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the kiwifruit

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

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Kiwifruitthe original

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