Name: Strawberry Dream Pie
Ingredients: Graham cracker crust; Butterscotch sauce from jar; Jello instant pudding (vanilla 4serving size); 1 ½-cups milk (or ½ and ½); 3-Crispy Crunch chocolate bars (or your favourite chocolate bar)

Why it works: Vanilla and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Strawberry Dream Pie

Ingredients

Graham cracker crust
Butterscotch sauce from jar
Jello instant pudding (vanilla 4serving size)
1 ½-cups milk (or ½ and ½)
3-Crispy Crunch chocolate bars (or your favourite chocolate bar)

Directions

Pour 1/3 cup butterscotch over graham crust
Mix milk with instant pudding
Thaw cool whip and mix in the chocolate bars that are cut in small pieces (reserve ½ cup chocolate bars to sprinkle on top of pie)
Add to pudding
Freeze 6 hours
Remove from freezer 10 minutes before serving

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

382Calories

10 gProtein

18 gFat

40 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 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
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Cracker	5 saltine crackers (15g)	66
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Sauce	not in our table	0
Pudding	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.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

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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 + milktop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 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).
Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,128 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Sauce + chocolatetop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together354 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + milktop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,759 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).