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Skinny Chocolate Peanut Butter Krispie Cheesecake Bars

Super easy, frozen bars that are great for kids or parties. You’ll have a hard time guessing that these are gluten-free and lower-calorie.

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Why it works: Chocolate and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,279 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 24
Prep30 min
Cook4 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Chocolate + peanuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Peanut + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Milk + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,354 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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