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Cheesecake with Dulce De Leche Cortada

This tart and creamy cheesecake is swirled with dulce de leche cortada, a Dominican caramel dessert made with sweetened milk curds.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Cheesecake with Dulce De Leche Cortada

Why it works: Cream cheese and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 44 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cheesecake with Dulce De Leche Cortada

Serves 12
Prep15 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

597Calories
17 gProtein
40 gFat
44 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Dulce De Lechenot 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. Cream cheese + goat cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

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

  4. Lime + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

Swap the lime

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Limethe original

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