Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bars

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. Chocolate + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,279 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together81,283 recipes

   Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together2,747 recipes

   Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together124,287 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

5. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together15,404 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, sugar, butter, cream cheese, flour, egg, milk):

1. Almondfits better
2. Pecansfits about as well
3. Walnutfits about as well
4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, sugar, butter, cream cheese, flour, egg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.