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Raspberry Glace Cheesecake Pie

"This easy dessert has pretty layers of cheesecake, raspberries, and colorful raspberry gelatin for a surprisingly elegant treat. Just mix it up, layer it, and chill."

This recipe’s ingredient list has no crust or pastry, so it bakes more like a fruit dish than a pastry pie.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and mandarin orange share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

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1 cheesecake
Prep20 min

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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. Raspberry + mandarin orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Raspberry + gelatintop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

  3. Gelatin + mandarin orangetop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raspberry, gelatin):

  1. Peachbetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, gelatin. 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).