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Strawberries & Cream Breakfast Tart

Gluten- and dairy-free and no refined sugars. This is a simple and delicious dessert made with natural whole foods.

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Why it works: Almond and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,129 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 10
Prep10 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Almond + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,129 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Oats + flaxseedtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Coconut + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  4. Pecans + oatstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together289 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Almond + raisintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, pecans, oats, coconut, sunflower, flaxseed, raisin):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, pecans, oats, coconut, sunflower, flaxseed, raisin. 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).