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Cream Cheese Frosting

Enjoy this quick and easy Cream Cheese Frosting as a snack or on gluten free Carrot Cake or gluten free Banana Bread.

By elanaspantry · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Cream Cheese Frosting

Why it works: Agave and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 248 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

183Calories
2 gProtein
15 gFat
8 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By elanaspantry. 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. Agave + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cream cheese + vanillatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,929 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Cream + cream cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Cream + agavetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

Cream and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the vanilla

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

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Blueberryfits less well
  4. Avocadofits less well

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