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Peanut Butter and Jelly Pizza

"An English muffin is topped with peanut butter, strawberry preserves, bananas, and hot fudge in this quick, kid-friendly snack."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 434 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

1 serving
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, peanut (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. Split the English muffin in half and toast both halves in a toaster until golden and crisp.

  2. Spread the JIF Creamy Reduced Fat Peanut Spread evenly over the toasted cut sides of both muffin halves.

  3. Spread the SMUCKER'S Strawberry Low Sugar Preserves over the peanut spread on each half.

  4. Arrange the banana slices over the preserves, dividing them evenly between the two halves.

  5. Drizzle the SMUCKER'S Hot Fudge Sugar Free Ice Cream Topping over the bananas.

  6. If using, sprinkle the flaked or shredded coconut over the top (optional).

  7. Serve right away while the muffin halves are still warm.

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. Peanut + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Strawberry + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together420 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Banana + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together549 recipes

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

  4. Wheat + peanuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Peanut + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together308 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 coconut

The recipe marks coconut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, peanut, spread, strawberry, sugar, banana, cream):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Raspberryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Appleabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, peanut, spread, strawberry, sugar, banana, 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).