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Best Homemade Cheese Cake

It is a fresh tasting and not to sweet cheescake

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,399 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

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

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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. Chocolate + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Sugar + biscuittop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,873 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,197 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Chocolate + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,480 recipes

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

  5. Chocolate + biscuittop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together334 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, sugar, butter, biscuit):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, sugar, butter, biscuit. 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).