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Frozen Peanut Butter Cheesecake

"I'm not a cheesecake fan, unlike my husband, so this was my compromise. I actually really enjoy it!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,621 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

The recipe

1 9-inch pie
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, peanut (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. Line a 9-inch pie pan lightly with cooking spray or a thin layer of butter from the listed amount so the crust releases easily.

  2. In a large saucepan over low heat, melt the butter and chocolate chips, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat.

  3. Stir the crispy rice cereal into the melted chocolate mixture until every piece is coated. Press firmly into the bottom and up the sides of the pie pan.

  4. Chill the crust in the freezer for 10 minutes to firm up while you make the filling.

  5. In a large bowl, beat the softened cream cheese until smooth. Gradually beat in the sweetened condensed milk, peanut butter, lemon juice and vanilla extract.

  6. Gently fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter mixture until no streaks remain. Spread the filling evenly over the chilled crust.

  7. Freeze the pie uncovered for 1 hour, then cover loosely and freeze for at least 5 hours or until firm.

  8. Warm the chocolate fudge sauce in a small bowl in the microwave for 20 to 30 seconds until pourable. Drizzle over the slices just before 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. Butter + peanuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Chocolate + peanuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Chocolate + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Rice + peanuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Bananabetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, chocolate, rice, cream cheese, condensed milk, peanut, vanilla. 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).