Cream Cheese

Tangzhong is the secret to the super-soft, pillowy dough that encases a brown butter–cinnamon sugar filling and gets topped with a tart cream cheese frosting.

The secret ingredient in this recipe for ultra-silky flan is cream cheese. It adds richness and stability to the custard dessert so that unmolding is a breeze.

Bursting with creamed spinach and cheese, and dressed with a glossy coat of ketchup, this is meatloaf 2.0.

Make these irresistible melt-in-your mouth shortbread-style cookies, which are topped with lime glaze and zest for a tangy and citrusy punch.

Let us clear something up: Classic cream cheese frosting recipes like this one aren’t just for topping carrot cakes, cinnamon rolls, or red velvet cakes. Too often the frosting is pigeon-holed and we aim to change that here and now. In fact, homemade cream cheese frosting can be used to add a pleasantly sweet and tangy note to almost any cupcake or layer cake recipe that calls for buttercream frosting, including this Double Banana Cake. It’s so easy and versatile, it’ll soon become your new favo.…

Sweet, sour, creamy, no-bake, and make-ahead: This is the perfect pie for the holidays and beyond.

Roasted sweet potatoes become a creamy, luscious dip when whipped with blue cheese and cream. Serve with crispy chips alongside for a crowd-pleasing starter.

Layers of gingersnap crust, tangy cheesecake, and tart lime curd make these freezer treats a warm-weather crowd-pleaser.

Creamy-cheesy broccoli become a charred wonder in this vegetarian side you’ll be taking to all your summer gatherings.

Give the classic cucumber sandwich an herbaceous punch with a lemony cilantro-jalapeño chutney.

Our favorite carrot cake recipe gets a crunch from toasted walnuts and a boozy punch from rum-plumped raisins, which are optional but recommended.

The love child of French onion soup and French onion dip. Need we say more?

Almond flour is a wonderfully sweet, nutty complement for fresh carrots, walnuts, and raisins.

Imagine if a cinnamon roll and a pound cake had a fluffy little baby, and that baby got drizzled with cream cheese icing. Thanks to Jocelyn Delk Adams and her grandmother, this baby is a reality (and we have the recipe).

Tangy sour cherries meet sweet and pillowy cheesecake in the ultimate spring-to-summer dessert.

Extremely plush, fine-crumbed, and dare-we-say moist, this is like the best wedding cake—and you mix it entirely by hand.

From the always-sunny brain of Flour Shop’s Amirah Kassem, this colorful, festive cake with a surprise filling is about as celebratory as it gets.

This cheesecake has a vanilla pound cake base, because why the hell not? You bake the cheesecake first, then the pound cake on top, and flip the whole thing over before decorating and serving. Room temperature eggs, cream cheese, and butter are vital to an evenly mixed cheesecake and fluffy pound cake. If you’re in a hurry, place the eggs in a bowl of hot tap water and zap the butter and cream cheese in the microwave in 10-second increments to quickly warm them up.

The most casual-cool carrot cake of all time.

Serving this creamy, delicious dip in a bread bowl is not mandatory, but we highly recommended going for it.