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Cherry Cream Cheese Pie

"This is one of my favorite and easiest recipes. It is always a hit at parties, bake sales, and pot-lucks. I have modified the original to decrease the fat and calories. It is still delicious."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 188 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

9 inch pie
Prep15 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. Beat the softened cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes.

  2. Add the sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice and vanilla extract, and beat until completely smooth and well combined.

  3. Spread the cream cheese mixture evenly into the prepared graham cracker crust.

  4. Spoon the cherry pie filling over the top, spreading it gently to cover the filling layer evenly.

  5. Refrigerate the pie for at least 4 hours, or until the filling is firm and set.

  6. Slice with a sharp knife dipped in hot water and wiped dry between cuts, then serve chilled.

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. Cherry + cream cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Cherry + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

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

  4. Cream cheese + condensed milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together165 recipes
  5. Cherry + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,301 recipes

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

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 (cherry, cream cheese, condensed milk, vanilla):

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

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