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Tuaca-Mascarpone Cream Recipe

Sometimes chantilly cream just doesn't have enough pizazz to top off an understated dessert. With the added flavor and richness of mascarpone cheese and an orange...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Tuaca-Mascarpone Cream Recipe

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Tuaca-Mascarpone Cream Recipe

3 cups
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

340Calories
9 gProtein
28 gFat
14 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mascarpone2 tbsp (28g)120
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7

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

By chow. 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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Cream + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + almondtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Cheese + almondtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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

Swap the almond

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

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Beansfits about as well

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