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Baked Cheesecake

A smooth, velvety cheesecake that’s not too sweet—just right.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Baked Cheesecake

Why it works: Biscuit and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 388 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Baked Cheesecake

Serves 8
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

687Calories
23 gProtein
45 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
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. Biscuit + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Biscuit + cream cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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 (biscuit, almond, butter, cream cheese, ricotta cheese, egg, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, almond, butter, cream cheese, ricotta cheese, egg, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.