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Lemon Coconut Cheesecake Bites

Lemon pudding mix provides wonderful flavor and color for the filling in these tasty little bites.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Lemon Coconut Cheesecake Bites

Why it works: Coconut and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,107 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Lemon Coconut Cheesecake Bites

Serves 30
Prep1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

598Calories
6 gProtein
46 gFat
45 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Puddingnot in our table0
Pie Fillingnot 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. Coconut + chocolatetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,107 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Lemon + coconuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Cream cheese + coconuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cream cheese + chocolatetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together894 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 lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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