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Mini Cheesecakes I

These cheesecakes are both impressive and super easy.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and cherry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 890 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

The recipe

48 mini cheesecakes
Prep30 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line two 24-cup mini muffin pans with paper liners.

  2. Place one vanilla wafer in the bottom of each of the 48 liners, pressing gently so it lies flat.

  3. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese and white sugar until smooth, then beat in the eggs one at a time and the vanilla extract.

  4. Spoon the cream cheese filling over the wafers, filling each liner nearly to the top.

  5. Bake for about 15 minutes, until the centers are set and reach 160°F (71°C). Cool completely in the pans.

  6. Refrigerate the cheesecakes until chilled, then spoon a little cherry pie filling onto each one 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. Vanilla + cherrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Vanilla + sugartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Cream cheese + cherrytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  5. Sugar + eggtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Vanilla and sugar 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 cherry

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

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  4. Cherrythe original

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