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Cranberry Cream Cheese Bars

"Transform your canned cranberry sauce into these delectable treats!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Cranberry Cream Cheese Bars

Why it works: Lemon and berry work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 57 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Cranberry Cream Cheese Bars

1 - 13x9 inch pan

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1066Calories
29 gProtein
33 gFat
164 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Berrynot in our table0
Saucenot 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. Lemon + berrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Oats + berrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Sugar + condensed milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Flour + berrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, oats, sugar, butter, cream cheese, condensed milk, berry):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, oats, sugar, butter, cream cheese, condensed milk, berry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.