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Blueberry Cream Cheese Pie

"This was a favorite summertime treat in our house and one of the many recipes that was passed down to me from my mom."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Blueberry Cream Cheese Pie

Why it works: Vanilla and blueberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 696 recipes. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓

Blueberry Cream Cheese Pie

1 9-inch pie
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

412Calories
5 gProtein
16 gFat
67 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Pie Fillingnot 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. Vanilla + blueberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together696 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  2. Vanilla + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Banana + blueberrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Lemon + blueberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together540 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, banana, blueberry):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Blackberryfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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