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Blackberry Puff Pastry Tarts

"This simple yet delicious recipe is certain to please anyone with a sweet tooth. You can use either puff pastry sheets or shells for this recipe. If you use sheets, put the filling in before you cook the pastry, and then cook them all the way in one go. These are equally good warm or cooled, but I advise against reheating them in the microwave or refrigerating them."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 30,777 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Place the thawed puff pastry shells on the sheet, spaced apart.

  3. In a bowl, beat the cream cheese, white sugar, ground cinnamon, and milk until smooth.

  4. Spoon the cream cheese mixture evenly into the puff pastry shells.

  5. Top each shell with blackberries, using fresh or frozen berries. Frozen berries can go on without thawing.

  6. Brush the exposed pastry edges with a little of the milk and sprinkle with turbinado sugar.

  7. Bake for 15 minutes, or until the pastry is puffed and golden and the filling is set.

  8. Let the tarts cool on the sheet for 10 minutes before serving.

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

  1. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Cinnamon + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,647 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Cream cheese + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,395 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together77,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Cream cheese + cinnamontop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together705 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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