Skip to main content

Pineapple Cream Cheese Frosting

"This frosting goes great on lemon cake, 7-up® cake, or lemon cookies."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Cream cheese and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 250 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

4 cups
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Let the butter and cream cheese sit at room temperature until soft.

  2. Beat the butter and cream cheese together in a bowl with a mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute.

  3. Reduce the speed to low and add the confectioners' sugar a little at a time, mixing until combined.

  4. Add the pineapple juice and beat on medium speed for 1 to 2 minutes until the frosting is light and fluffy.

  5. Use right away, or cover and refrigerate until ready to spread, then let it soften slightly before using.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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 + pineappletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together250 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Butter + pineappletop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,133 recipes

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

  4. Butter + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Pineapple + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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