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Vegan Cheesecake

"This sweetened tofu recipe is baked in a graham cracker pie crust and served chilled. Try drizzling with a sweet berry sauce for extra color and flavor."

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Vegan Cheesecake

Why it works: Tofu and soy milk share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Vegan Cheesecake

6 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

404Calories
17 gProtein
14 gFat
51 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Soy Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Tofu100g firm76
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12

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

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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. Tofu + soy milktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  3. Soy milk + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + maple syruptop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together752 recipes

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

  5. Tofu + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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