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Snow Ball Dessert

"This recipe is light and fluffy, and if you like fruit, you'll love this dish!"

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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 732 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. In a large bowl, stir together the sour cream, white sugar and lemon juice until smooth and the sugar has mostly dissolved, about 2 minutes.

  2. Gently fold the thawed whipped topping into the sour cream mixture until no white streaks remain.

  3. Fold in the drained crushed pineapple, sliced maraschino cherries and chopped pecans until evenly distributed.

  4. Fold in the sliced bananas last so they stay intact, then spoon the mixture into a serving dish.

  5. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or until firm and well chilled 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. Pineapple + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together732 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

  3. Banana + pecanstop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Pineapple + pecanstop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Lemon + pineappletop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,962 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, pineapple, banana, pecans):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, pineapple, banana, pecans. 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).