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Banana-Blueberry Pie

A perfect summertime dessert filled with real bananas and blueberries topped with a creamy, rich cream cheese and pudding filling. It’s a great way to end a lunch, dinner, brunch—or even for breakfast!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Banana-Blueberry Pie

Why it works: Vanilla and banana are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,430 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Banana-Blueberry Pie

Serves 12
Prep50 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

614Calories
13 gProtein
36 gFat
66 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Puddingnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Vanilla + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Banana + cream cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  5. Vanilla + cream cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,929 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, butter, banana, cream cheese, condensed milk, cream):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, butter, banana, cream cheese, condensed milk, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.