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Avocado Icing

It sounds unusual, sweet avocado..but it works! This can be made best to put ontop of cakes and cupcakes.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 76 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Avocado Icing

Makes 12 muffins

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

388Calories
5 gProtein
32 gFat
27 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

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

By bbcgoodfood. 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. Avocado + cream cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Sugar + cream cheesetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,791 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Sugar + avocadotop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together321 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the avocado

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Avocadothe 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.