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Chocolate Banana Cream Pie

"A creamy layered pie; the layers include chocolate, bananas, and vanilla pudding with coconut. Easy, and very yummy."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Chocolate Banana Cream Pie

Why it works: Banana and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,430 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Chocolate Banana Cream Pie

1 - deep dish pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

806Calories
14 gProtein
56 gFat
66 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Puddingnot 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. Banana + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

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

  3. Banana + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together549 recipes

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

  4. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

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

  5. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, milk, butter, vanilla, coconut):

  1. Bananathe original
  2. Pineapplefits about as well
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Figfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, milk, butter, vanilla, coconut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.