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Peach and Cream Cheese Torte

"This family favorite is too good to keep to ourselves."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and peach share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 51 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep25 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, 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.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (177°C) and lightly grease a 9-inch pie pan or springform pan.

  2. Beat the butter and 1/3 cup white sugar until smooth, then mix in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, the flour and the chopped pecans until crumbly and well combined.

  3. Press the crumb mixture evenly into the bottom of the pan and bake for 10 minutes, until just set and lightly golden. Leave the oven on.

  4. Beat the cream cheese, 1/4 cup white sugar, the egg, 1/4 teaspoon almond extract and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract until smooth.

  5. Spread the cream cheese filling over the partly baked crust.

  6. Arrange the drained peach slices over the filling and sprinkle the top evenly with the ground cinnamon.

  7. Bake for 25 minutes, until the filling is set and reaches 160°F (71°C) in the center. Cool on a rack, then refrigerate for at least 1 hour before slicing.

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. Cream cheese + peachtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Vanilla + peachtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together558 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  5. Flour + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and vanilla 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 pecans

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

  1. Pecansthe original
  2. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit

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