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Valentine's Day Dessert

"Sometimes just a good sweet dessert is enough to drive a man wild, especially one that is appealing to the eye and contains favorites like sugar cookies and cherries!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and cherry work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 188 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

9 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 + cherrytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Sugar + cherrytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,598 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + cream cheesetop 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 cherry

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

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherrythe original

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