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Spiced Apple Cider Float

A creamy and delicious treat! You don’t need to be a kid to love this! You can make it grown up by adding a shot of your favorite liquor.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cider match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,042 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep5 min
Cook1 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Pour the apple cider into a tall glass.

  2. Add scoops of the vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt on top of the cider, letting it foam up.

  3. Sprinkle the pumpkin pie spice over the top of the float.

  4. Serve right away with a spoon and a straw.

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. Apple + cidertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

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

  2. Apple + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,501 recipes

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

  3. Pumpkin + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together784 recipes

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

  4. Apple + pumpkintop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Cider + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together86 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, cider, vanilla):

  1. Pearbetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Bananabetter flavor fit
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, cider, vanilla. 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).