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Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies

There are two secrets to these brownies that make them a step above your usual pumpkin cheesecake brownie. One, make sure to cook down the pumpkin puree from the can, concentrating the pumpkin flavor. You can certainly skip this step and just use 1 cup of the pumpkin puree from the can but the resulting brownie won’t look as orange and it won’t taste as pumpkin-y. Two, use Dutch processed cocoa. You can find it online but most grocery stores carry Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa which works fine for this recipe. You’ll get a deeper more bitter chocolate taste to the brownies as well as a lovely rich black color that’s a great contrast to the orange pumpkin cheesecake. If the “spiderweb” pattern seems too fussy for you to make, just drizzle the reserved brownie batter over the cheesecake batter in a random pattern and swirl with a butter knife or toothpick.

By eatthelove · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies

24 cheesecake brownies
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1119Calories
31 gProtein
45 gFat
143 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

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

  4. Pumpkin + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Ginger + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cream cheese, sugar, flour, vanilla):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cream cheese, sugar, flour, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.