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Raspberry-Mandarin Whip

"This is great as a sweet compliment to a meal. It works well for pot lucks."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 134 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep10 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 cream cheese soften at room temperature, then beat it with the white sugar in a large bowl until smooth.

  2. Fold the thawed whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture until no streaks remain.

  3. Drain the mandarin oranges well, then fold them gently into the mixture.

  4. Fold in the sliced bananas so they are evenly distributed without breaking up.

  5. Thaw the frozen raspberries until mostly soft, then fold them in gently, reserving a few for garnish if you like.

  6. Spoon the mixture into a serving dish, top with the reserved raspberries if using, and chill for at least 2 hours before serving.

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 + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Banana + mandarin orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Sugar + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  4. Cream cheese + mandarin orangetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cream cheese + sugartop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,793 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, sugar, mandarin orange):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, sugar, mandarin orange. 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).