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Cassata Cake Ricotta Cheese Filling

"Creamy rich ricotta cheese filling."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Ricotta cheese and cinnamon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

4 1/2 cups

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Ricotta cheese + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Cinnamon + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Vanilla + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, milk, ricotta cheese, cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate):

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, ricotta cheese, cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate. 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).