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Cherry Blueberry Oat Cookie Pie Crisp

This recipe might look a little fussy because you have to bake a cookie and then crumble it into a pie crust and topping but it’s not as hard as it seem and significantly faster than a double crust pie. Instead of making a pastry dough and letting it rest in the fridge for the gluten to relax and the fat to chill, you make the cookie dough and while it cools on the pan you cook the filling on the stove. After a quick crumble of the cookie crust, a fast 15-minute bake to brown the crumbs, you have a pie, ready to serve! Keep in mind that this pie is a bit on the sweet, so it would go great with some vanilla ice cream or whipped cream to cut the sugar shock. Or just enjoy as is if you like your desserts more on the sweet side.

By eatthelove · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,287 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

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1 pie

Ingredients

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

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By eatthelove. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Vanilla + oatstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  3. Wheat + oatstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together473 recipes

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

  4. Cinnamon + wheattop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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