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Goat Cheese Cake with Cranberry Rosemary Honey

This impossibly fluffy cheesecake combines tangy and sweet for a truly decadent holiday dessert!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and honey share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 98 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 10
Prep30 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Goat cheese + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  2. Cream cheese + goat cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together44 recipes

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

  3. Almond + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cinnamon

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

  1. Cinnamonthe original
  2. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, butter, cream cheese, goat cheese, egg, cream, sugar. 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).