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Apple Cheesecake Bars with Sea Salt Caramel Sauce

"Bake up a pan of these crowd-pleasing apple cheesecake bars--the sea salt and caramel topping makes them irresistible."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Apple Cheesecake Bars with Sea Salt Caramel Sauce

Why it works: Butter and cream cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,747 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Apple Cheesecake Bars with Sea Salt Caramel Sauce

12 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

489Calories
10 gProtein
29 gFat
51 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Leafnot in our table0
Pie Fillingnot in our table0
Saucenot 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 allrecipes. 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. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Butter + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cream cheese + appletop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, cream cheese, egg, sauce):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Strawberryfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

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