Why it works: Goat cheese and honey share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 98 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓
The recipe
Serves 6Ingredients
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.
Heat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Place the frozen puff pastry shells on a baking sheet and bake according to the package directions, about 15 to 20 minutes, until golden and crisp. Let cool.
Meanwhile, toss the fresh blackberries with the granulated sugar in a bowl and let them sit for 10 minutes so they release some juice.
In a bowl, beat the softened goat cheese with the sour cream until smooth and spreadable.
In a separate cold bowl, whip the heavy cream with the confectioners sugar until soft peaks form.
Fold the whipped cream gently into the goat cheese mixture until just combined.
Spoon or pipe the goat cheese cream into the cooled pastry shells, dividing it evenly among the six tarts.
Top each tart with blackberries, spooning over some of the juices from the bowl.
Drizzle each tart with light honey just before serving. Serve right away or chill briefly until ready to eat.
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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.
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Goat cheese + honeytop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together98 recipes
Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
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Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together43,437 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Goat cheese + creamtop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together70 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).
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Honey + sugartop 12% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together2,932 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Honey + creamtop 19% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together736 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
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