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No-Bake Cranberry Sauce Pie

"Cranberry sauce never tasted so good! This colorful pie is a nice addition to any Thanksgiving or Christmas table. Your tastebuds will be in for a treat with its creamy, tart and sweet medley."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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No-Bake Cranberry Sauce Pie

Why it works: Vanilla and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 950 recipes. Both carry ethyl benzoate, which smells fruity, sweet. The science ↓

No-Bake Cranberry Sauce Pie

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

464Calories
5 gProtein
27 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Waternot in our table0
Berrynot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Vanilla + raspberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  2. Cranberry + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Berry + cranberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Raspberry + cranberrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  5. Vanilla + berrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50 recipes

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

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

Swap the walnut

The recipe marks walnut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, vanilla, sugar, raspberry, berry, cranberry, sauce):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Beansfits about as well
  4. Chestnutfits about as well

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