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Butter Toffee Pumpkin Pecan Squares Recipe

Pumpkin and butter toffe bits make these squares a special holiday treat with 3 layers of delicous decadence. Everyone will go crazy over aroma wafting through...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and pumpkin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,931 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

24 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Butter + pumpkintop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,931 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Pecans + pumpkintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together272 recipes

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

  4. Butter + pecanstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,408 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + creamtop 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