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Canada Day Nanaimo Bar Cheesecake

"The taste of a Nanaimo bar in a cheesecake! Can't get any better than this. Make in the jelly roll pan for serving a larger crowd. Result is thinner but still as tasty. (You will need to adjust baking time if you use the bigger pan.)"

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Canada Day Nanaimo Bar Cheesecake

Why it works: Pecans and coconut work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 394 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Canada Day Nanaimo Bar Cheesecake

16 servings
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1013Calories
15 gProtein
88 gFat
46 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Pecans + coconuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Chocolate + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

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

  5. Pecans + cream cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the coconut

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Strawberryfits less well

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