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Coconut Cream Pie Delight That’s Better Than Robert Redford

The soul of coconut cream pie, from the mind of a cook who doesn’t have time to make coconut cream pie today. I cobbled the name together from a trio of inspiration recipes.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Coconut Cream Pie Delight That’s Better Than Robert Redford

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Coconut Cream Pie Delight That’s Better Than Robert Redford

Serves 15
Prep30 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1292Calories
27 gProtein
66 gFat
148 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Toppingnot in our table0
Puddingnot 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Coconut + chocolatetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

  5. Butter + coconuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

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

Swap the coconut

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Strawberryfits less well
  4. Bananafits less well

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