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Strawberry Cheesecake Muffins

"A desert type muffin that disappears in minutes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 19,175 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Heat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line it with paper liners.

  2. Beat the softened cream cheese and confectioners' sugar together in a bowl until smooth and set aside.

  3. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together.

  4. In a second bowl, whisk the egg, milk, brown sugar, melted butter, lemon zest and vanilla extract until combined.

  5. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until no dry flour remains. The batter should stay lumpy.

  6. Spoon batter into each cup until about half full. Add a spoonful of the cream cheese mixture and a small spoonful of strawberry jam to each.

  7. Top each muffin with the remaining batter so the filling is covered, then smooth the tops lightly.

  8. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

  9. Cool the muffins in the tin for 5 minutes, then move them to a rack to cool further 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. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Cream cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  5. Cream cheese + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 cheese, sugar, flour, egg, milk, butter, vanilla):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, sugar, flour, egg, milk, butter, vanilla. 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).