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Garlic and Brown Sugar Cheese Ball

"It's a strange sounding combination, but EVERYONE who has tried it loves it. Goes over great at parties with your favourite crackers."

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Garlic and Brown Sugar Cheese Ball

Why it works: Cream cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,747 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Garlic and Brown Sugar Cheese Ball

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook1 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

459Calories
6 gProtein
42 gFat
20 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Cream cheese + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together465 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, butter, sugar, sauce, pecans):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

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