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Cherry Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt

"This fruity frozen yogurt is packed with flavor -- Just stir, freeze, and scoop. If you don't care for cherries, you could add blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, or peaches. ENJOY!!!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and yogurt match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 873 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

6 cups
Prep25 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Let the cream cheese soften at room temperature, then beat it in a large bowl until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes.

  2. Add the sugar and lemon juice to the cream cheese and beat until the sugar is mostly dissolved, about 2 minutes.

  3. Whisk in the Greek yogurt until the mixture is completely smooth and no lumps of cream cheese remain.

  4. Chill the base in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes so it is cold before churning.

  5. Pour the chilled base into an ice cream maker and churn according to the manufacturer's directions until thick and soft-serve textured, about 20 to 25 minutes.

  6. Meanwhile, pit and chop the fresh cherries into small pieces, keeping any juice they release.

  7. Gently fold the chopped cherries into the churned frozen yogurt until evenly distributed.

  8. Transfer the mixture to a freezer-safe container, press parchment or plastic wrap onto the surface, cover, and freeze until firm, at least 4 hours.

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. Cream cheese + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together873 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together53,530 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together882 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Lemon + yogurttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,095 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + yogurttop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,614 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon share little aroma chemistry, yet 53,530 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 (cream cheese, sugar, yogurt):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, sugar, yogurt. 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).