Skip to main content

Bleu Cheese & Raspberry Dip

Outstanding flavor combination for dipping!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Cheese and cream cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 479 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep10 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. Place the softened cream cheese and sour cream in a bowl and beat with a mixer or spoon until smooth and creamy.

  2. Stir the allspice into the cream cheese mixture until evenly combined.

  3. Fold in the bleu cheese crumbles, reserving a small handful for topping.

  4. Rinse and drain the raspberries well. Mash about half of them with a fork and stir into the dip, leaving the rest whole.

  5. Spread the dip in a serving dish and scatter the reserved bleu cheese and whole raspberries over the top.

  6. Chill the dip for at least 30 minutes before serving so the flavors can meld.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Cheese + cream cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together479 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Cheese + creamtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,649 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cream cheese + allspicetop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Cheese + allspicetop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

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

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, cream, cream cheese. 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).