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Cherry Cream Pie

"Sweet and delicious. Recipe calls for pre-made graham cracker crust, but I usually make my own."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 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

1 pie
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Beat the softened cream cheese in a large bowl until smooth and fluffy.

  2. Add the milk and beat well, then add the instant vanilla pudding mix and beat for 2 minutes until thickened.

  3. Fold in the sour cream until evenly combined.

  4. Spread half of the cherry pie filling over the bottom of the graham cracker crust.

  5. Spoon the cream cheese filling over the cherry layer and smooth the top with a spatula.

  6. Spoon the remaining cherry pie filling over the top in an even layer.

  7. Refrigerate the pie for at least 4 hours or until firm and set before slicing.

By allrecipes. 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. Cream cheese + cherrytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Vanilla + cherrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Cream cheese + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Cream cheese + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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