Name: Mini Lemon Cheesecakes
Yield: Makes 12 cakes
Ingredients: You need:; For the Cheese cake:; - 2 tubs of 200g Cream Cheese (I use Philedelphia); - 50g of icing sugar (a good shaking); - 2 lemons (juice and rind); - Splash of double cream (if your cheesecake seems runny, add more of this and stir so more air is incorporated into it, however if it is thick, this is good, the thicker the better!); For the biscuit base:; - Chunk of butter (50-75g); - Half a pack of digestive biscuits (150g ish, you can use any biscuits, however)

Why it works: Cheese and cream cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 473 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Mini Lemon Cheesecakes

Makes 12 cakes

Ingredients

You need:
For the Cheese cake:
- 2 tubs of 200g Cream Cheese (I use Philedelphia)
- 50g of icing sugar (a good shaking)
- 2 lemons (juice and rind)
- Splash of double cream (if your cheesecake seems runny, add more of this and stir so more air is incorporated into it, however if it is thick, this is good, the thicker the better!)
For the biscuit base:
- Chunk of butter (50-75g)
- Half a pack of digestive biscuits (150g ish, you can use any biscuits, however)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

592Calories

13 gProtein

44 gFat

41 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Biscuit	1 medium (45g)	166
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Cake	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.

By bbcgoodfood. 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.

Cheese + cream cheesetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together473 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,747 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,962 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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 (cheese, cream cheese, sugar, cream, biscuit, butter):

Vanillafits better
Strawberryfits better
Coconutfits better
Lemonthe original

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

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