Name: Banana Cream Cheesecake
Ingredients: 1 Yellow cake mix, prepared in 13x9 pan.; 8 oz Cream cheese, room temperature; 1 pk (3-oz) instant vanilla pudding; 2 c Milk; 3 Or 4 bananas; 1 lg Container Cool Whip; 1 c Chopped nuts

Why it works: Vanilla and banana are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,430 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Banana Cream Cheesecake

Ingredients

Directions

Beat cream cheese until creamy.
Add milk, gradually; add pudding, beating until well mixed.
Pour over cooled cake. Slice the bananas over cake.
Cover with Cool Whip and top with nuts.
Category:Moldovan Recipes
Category:Moldovan Desserts

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

365Calories

11 gProtein

18 gFat

41 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
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Cake	not in our table	0
Pudding	not in our table	0
Nuts	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.

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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 + bananatop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,430 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Vanilla + nutstop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together638 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Milk + bananatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,470 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Cream cheese + bananatop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together134 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

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

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

Pecansfits better
Peanutfits better
Hazelnutfits better
Nutsthe original

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