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Tropical Tiramisu

"Ah, nothing like the sweet taste of the tropics! Using my leftover coconut bunny cake I created a tiramisu featuring the tropical flavors of pineapple, mango, ginger, and macadamia nuts. My cake was a white cake but a leftover yellow cake would work just as well. Sliced almonds can be substituted for macadamia nuts."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Tropical Tiramisu

Why it works: Pineapple and mango match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 224 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Tropical Tiramisu

6 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

404Calories
5 gProtein
13 gFat
67 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Cakenot in our table0
Macadamianot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pineapple + mangotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Pineapple + rumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Mango + rumtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

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

  4. Mango + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Pineapple + macadamia nuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the macadamia nut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, honey, pineapple, mango, rum, ginger):

  1. Walnutfits about as well
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Beansfits about as well
  4. Macadamia nutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, honey, pineapple, mango, rum, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.