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Peanut Butter Chip Pecan Pie

"Teenagers and kids love this pie, it's so simple and oh so good."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Peanut Butter Chip Pecan Pie

Why it works: Vanilla and pecans are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,691 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Peanut Butter Chip Pecan Pie

1 - 9 inch pie
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1053Calories
29 gProtein
52 gFat
117 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Pie Crustnot 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 + pecanstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,691 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  3. Peanut + pecanstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Vanilla + peanuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Butter + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,416 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 peanut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Macadamia nutfits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, butter, egg, vanilla, pecans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.