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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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Why it works: Cream cheese and berry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

1 - 13x9 inch pan

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 + berrytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Lemon + berrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Oats + berrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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 (flour, oats, sugar, butter, cream cheese, condensed milk, berry):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  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. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).