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Cream cheese Recipes

12 recipes with cream cheese for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

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Sweet Dishes

Cheesecake

A classic New York-style cheesecake with a crispy graham cracker crust and a rich, creamy filling — the perfect dessert for any occasion.

90 min470 kcal12 serves

★4.5

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Mac and Cheese

The ultimate American comfort food — elbow macaroni baked in a rich, velvety three-cheese sauce with a golden breadcrumb crust. Creamy on the inside, crispy on top.

40 min540 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

★4.9

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Obatzda

A traditional Bavarian cheese dip made with soft ripened Camembert or Brie, butter and spices. Perfect with pretzels and beer. The key is very soft cheese and room-temperature butter for a velvety, creamy consistency.

75 min310 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto

★4.7

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Sweet Dishes

No-Bake Pistachio Cheesecake Cups

Individual cheesecake cups with a crushed biscuit base, a cream cheese and pistachio cream filling, and crushed pistachios on top. No oven, no water bath, no fuss. Set in the fridge in 3 hours. The filling is the Dubai chocolate bar flavor profile without the kataifi.

25 min420 kcal6 serves

⚡Quick

★4.4

Asparagus and Marinated Artichoke Galette

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Asparagus and Marinated Artichoke Galette

Savory free-form tart with asparagus spears and oil-packed artichoke hearts on a lemony herbed cream cheese base. The dough takes five minutes and no food processor — just cold butter grated directly into flour. Once it comes out of the oven with the crust dark and blistered and the cheese puffed at the edges, it looks like something you'd pay $18 for at a spring brunch spot.

75 min385 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

★4.7

Japanese Cheesecake (Cotton Soufflé Cheesecake)

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Sweet Dishes

Japanese Cheesecake (Cotton Soufflé Cheesecake)

A cloud-light hybrid of cheesecake and soufflé: cream cheese melted into a smooth batter, egg whites whipped to soft peaks and folded in, baked in a water bath at low temperature. The result jiggles when you shake the tin. Not sweet in the American sense — lightly tangy from cream cheese with a breath of lemon. First created at the Plaza Hotel in Osaka. Best warm from the oven for the jiggle, or chilled overnight when it becomes denser and creamier.

100 min260 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

★4.7

Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting

Bakery-style cinnamon rolls: a pillowy, enriched dough made with the tangzhong technique — a Japanese method of cooking a small portion of flour and milk into a paste before adding it to the dough — which allows the dough to hold far more moisture than normal, producing rolls that stay cloud-soft for days rather than going stale by evening. The filling is brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter that melts into gooey caramelized layers during baking. The crowning cream cheese frosting is spread over warm rolls so it partially melts into the swirls. These are the rolls that end arguments about what to bring to brunch.

210 min520 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

★4.8

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Sweet Dishes

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot cake is one of the very few cakes where the vegetable in the name is not a compromise — it genuinely makes the cake better. Freshly grated carrots release moisture directly into the batter and carry the spices into every crumb. The cake uses oil rather than butter, which keeps it moist even straight from the fridge. Brown sugar adds molasses depth that plain white sugar doesn't. The cream cheese frosting is the best part: tangy, rich, and not too sweet when you use a measured hand with the icing sugar. This is a two-layer cake assembled with frosting between the layers and swirled over the top and sides.

90 min510 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

★4.4

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Sauces and Dips

Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Hot, cheesy, and straightforward — this is the version that disappears first at any party. Cream cheese is the base, mozzarella provides the gooeyness, parmesan does the seasoning work, and sour cream keeps the whole thing from being too dense. The two non-negotiables: squeeze the frozen spinach until your hands ache, and let the cream cheese reach room temperature before you try to mix anything. Watery spinach ruins the texture. Cold cream cheese makes a lumpy mess. Everything else is flexible.

35 min290 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

★4.5

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Sauces and Dips

Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo chicken dip is everything a chicken wing delivers — hot sauce, butter richness, cooling dairy, sharp cheese — in a scoopable baked format that works for a crowd without the mess. Rotisserie chicken goes in shredded, cream cheese and ranch hold it together, cheddar seals the top, and the oven does the rest. Ready in 35 minutes. Scales easily. Disappears faster than you expect.

35 min290 kcal8 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

★4.9

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Cloud Bread (Egg White Bread)

Cloud bread is not really bread — it is a whipped egg white and cream cheese round that bakes into something light, slightly crispy on the outside, and soft inside. Zero flour, zero gluten, near-zero carbs without the honey. Popular on keto and low-carb diets as a bun substitute, but also works as a base for mini pizzas, a light breakfast with berries, or a soup accompaniment. The technique is the whole recipe.

40 min65 kcal6 serves

🥑Keto🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

★4.6

Pickle Dip (Creamy Dill Pickle Dip with Cream Cheese and Greek Yogurt)

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Sauces and Dips

Pickle Dip (Creamy Dill Pickle Dip with Cream Cheese and Greek Yogurt)

Pickle dip is a creamy American party appetizer built on softened cream cheese, Greek yogurt, finely chopped refrigerator dill pickles, and fresh dill. The brine from the pickles cuts the richness of the cream cheese, the yogurt adds tang and lightness, and a cold rest in the fridge lets the flavours integrate into one smooth dip rather than separate notes. Serves eight from a single bowl with kettle chips, rye toasts, or vegetable sticks. The technique is simple, but two details matter: dice the pickles small (3 to 4 mm), and bring the cream cheese fully to room temperature before mixing.

75 min120 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

★4.8

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butter egg milk garlic eggs brown sugar cinnamon full-fat cream cheese sugar macaroni cheddar soft cheese