Why it works: Cream cheese and mandarin orange work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓
The recipe
8 servingsIngredients
Contains: milk, tree nuts (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.
Toast the chopped walnuts in a dry skillet over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring often, until fragrant. Let them cool.
In a large bowl, beat the softened cream cheese until smooth. Add the marshmallow creme and vanilla yogurt and beat until fully combined.
Cut the apple, jicama and strawberries into bite-sized chunks or matchsticks as described. Add the mandarin orange segments and blueberries.
Gently fold the prepared fruit, jicama and cooled walnuts into the cream cheese mixture until evenly coated.
Stand the flat bottomed ice cream cones upright on a serving tray or in cone holders so they do not tip.
Spoon the fruit mixture generously into each cone, mounding it slightly at the top.
Refrigerate the filled cones for at least 10 minutes so the filling firms up slightly before serving.
Explore the science
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.
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Cream cheese + mandarin orangetop 13% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together21 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
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Cream cheese + yogurttop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together873 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Vanilla + appletop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,501 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Vanilla + mandarin orangetop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together57 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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Cream cheese + walnuttop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together439 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the jicama
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, vanilla, yogurt, apple, mandarin orange, walnut, cream):
- Capsicumbetter flavor fit
- Lettucebetter flavor fit
- Potatobetter flavor fit
- Jicamathe original
Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, vanilla, yogurt, apple, mandarin orange, walnut, cream. 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).
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