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Heavenly Blueberry and Cream Angel Dessert

Because it is so light and luscious, it is the perfect finale to any meal. Recipe uses a prepared angel food cake—you can use a box mix, homemade or store bought.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and evaporated milk work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 70 recipes mention both. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By tastykitchen. 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 + evaporated milktop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together70 recipes
  2. Blueberry + cream cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together145 recipes

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

  3. Blueberry + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together540 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Cream + cream cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (blueberry, sugar, cream, cream cheese, evaporated milk):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against blueberry, sugar, cream, cream cheese, evaporated milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).