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Naughty Hula Pie

"An ice-cream pie so-o-o good it's NAUGHTY!"

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Naughty Hula Pie

Why it works: Vanilla and macadamia nut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Naughty Hula Pie

1 - 9 inch pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

269Calories
2 gProtein
20 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Macadamia Nutnot in our table0
Fudgenot in our table0
Toppingnot 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.

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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 + macadamia nuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Chocolate + macadamia nuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

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

  4. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Vanilla + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Vanilla and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 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 macadamia nut

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

  1. Hazelnutfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Macadamia nutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, vanilla, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.