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Pineapple & Passion Fruit Cheesecake

A creamy, dreamy cheesecake, perfect for spoiling family and friends

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and passion fruit work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 36 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8 - 10
Prep30 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pineapple + passion fruittop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lime + pineappletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Lime + passion fruittop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

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

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Applebetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, ginger, cheese, egg, cream, sugar, pineapple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).