Name: White Chocolate, Cream Cheese Berry Pastries
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 22 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1 whole Egg, Beaten; 1 Tablespoon Water; 3 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, Softened (1/3 Reduced Fat); ¼ teaspoons Vanilla Extract; 1 whole Unbaked Refrigerated Pie Crust (I Used Pillsbury); ¼ cups Berry Jam (your Favorite Kind); ¼ cups White Chocolate Chips

Why it works: Vanilla and berry work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

White Chocolate, Cream Cheese Berry Pastries

Serves 8

Prep10 min

Cook22 min

Ingredients

1 whole Egg, Beaten
1 Tablespoon Water
3 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, Softened (1/3 Reduced Fat)
¼ teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1 whole Unbaked Refrigerated Pie Crust (I Used Pillsbury)
¼ cups Berry Jam (your Favorite Kind)
¼ cups White Chocolate Chips

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

344Calories

9 gProtein

24 gFat

20 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Water	not in our table	0
Pie Crust	not in our table	0
Berry	not in our table	0

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.

Vanilla + berrytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together50 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,020 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Cream cheese + vanillatop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,929 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Cream cheese + chocolatetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together894 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Berry + chocolatetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17 recipes

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

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

Swap the berry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream cheese, vanilla, chocolate):

Coconutfits better
Raspberryfits better
Strawberryfits better
Berrythe original

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

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