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Cherry Cheesecake

"This recipe has two names; Cherry Cheese Cake and/or Cherry Cream Cheese Pie. It is delicious!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and cherry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 890 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

The recipe

1 - 9 inch cheesecake
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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. Place the cream cheese in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes.

  2. Beat in the sweetened condensed milk gradually until fully combined and smooth.

  3. Mix in the lemon juice and vanilla extract until the mixture thickens slightly.

  4. Spread the cream cheese filling evenly into the prepared graham cracker crust, smoothing the top with a spatula.

  5. Refrigerate the cheesecake uncovered for at least 4 hours, or until firm enough to slice.

  6. Just before serving, spoon the cherry pie filling over the top and spread it evenly to the edges.

  7. Refrigerate for 15 minutes more to chill the topping, then slice and serve cold.

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. Vanilla + cherrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cream cheese + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,934 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + condensed milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together165 recipes
  4. Lemon + cherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,301 recipes

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

  5. Condensed milk + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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, condensed milk, vanilla, cherry):

  1. Bananabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, condensed milk, vanilla, cherry. 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).