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Stuffed Roaches

"These look really gross, but the kids love them! These are time-consuming, so kick back in a recliner and feel free to watch a movie as you are stuffing them."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and walnut work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 439 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

24 servings
Prep1 hr

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. Put the softened cream cheese in a bowl and beat with a spoon or hand mixer until smooth.

  2. Add the finely chopped walnuts to the cream cheese and stir until evenly combined.

  3. Cut a slit lengthwise along each pitted date, without cutting all the way through, and gently open it up.

  4. Spoon or pipe a small amount of the cream cheese and walnut filling into each date.

  5. Arrange the stuffed dates on a serving platter.

  6. Chill for at least 30 minutes so the filling firms up 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 + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together439 recipes

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

  2. Walnut + datestop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cream cheese + datestop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the dates

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

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, walnut. 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).