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Charley's Low Sugar Peanut Butter Pie

"I recently went on a sugar free diet and adapted this recipe accordingly. A unique crust of shredded wheat crackers and pecans encloses a creamy combination of light cream cheese, peanut butter, and whipped topping."

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Charley's Low Sugar Peanut Butter Pie

Why it works: Wheat and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Charley's Low Sugar Peanut Butter Pie

1 - 9 inch pie
Prep15 min
Cook7 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1013Calories
25 gProtein
57 gFat
105 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Wheatnot in our table0
Toppingnot 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. Wheat + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Pecans + peanuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Wheat + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Peanutthe original
  4. Pistachiofits less well

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