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Cinnamon Swirl Bagels with Cream Cheese

Cinnamon swirl bagels with honey walnut cream cheese. Why wouldn’t you want to wake up to freshly baked bagels every morning?

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and cinnamon work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 705 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep1 hr 30 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Cream cheese + cinnamontop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together705 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Honey + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,262 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Honey + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,446 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, honey, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, bagel, bread):

  1. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peanutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, honey, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, bagel, bread. 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).