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Dreamsicle Delight Pie Recipe

Nice tasting easy to make pretend cheese cake...Note there are no liquids used with the vanill pudding or the orange jello.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and mandarin orange share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 87 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Dreamsicle Delight Pie Recipe

1-2 pies

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

417Calories
5 gProtein
16 gFat
67 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Mandarin Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Puddingnot in our table0
Pie Crustnot 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 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. Orange + mandarin orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Vanilla + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + mandarin orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Vanilla + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the mandarin orange

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

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

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