Because cream cheese makes every dessert better.
It makesicebox piefillings smooth, cake frostings and drizzles creamy, and baked goods more tender.
Find a new favorite today.
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Hummingbird Cake
Hummingbird Cake without cream cheese frosting is just overachieving banana bread.
These sunny bars step it up a notch with floral Meyer lemon and honey.
Praline-Cream Cheese King Cake
Consider this your official permission slip to enjoyKing Cakeany time of the year.
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The cream cheese and praline swirl makes this cake perfect for breakfast.
Call it “Steve” if you want.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins
Cream cheese is like the perfect dance partnerit loves a good swirl-n-twirl.
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Cream Cheese Ice Cream
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Cream cheese makes thishomemade ice creamincredibly easyno eggs or custard required.
The sweet, slightly tangy flavor is lovely with fresh fruit.
Here, a cream cheese swirl delivers a surprise in every slice.
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It’s like a layer cake, but way easier.
Trust usthat’s all the reason you should probably make it.
Cheesecake Cookies
Cream cheese in cookie dough?
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These fluffy, flaky cookies will make you want to add cream cheese to all your recipes.
Cream cheese delivers its tangy flavor to this buttery cake swirled with strawberry goodness.
Cream Cheese-Banana-Nut Bread
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You had us at cream cheese, honestly.
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Here, it lightens traditional banana bread, yielding a fluffier loaf.
The cream cheese filling is lovely with any seasonal fruit.
This double-decker red velvet delivers all the flavor (and cream cheese frosting) with less effort.
It’s a tasty marriage of toasty-gooey pecan pie and creamy cheesecake.
Just look at that frosting!
Cheesecake Crescent Rolls
If you did a double take, you’re not alone.
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Thecrescent rollsare actually on the top and bottom of this dessert, sandwiching a lovely cheesecake filling.
Italian Cream Cake
The nutty cream cheese frosting on this event-worthy layer cake is studded with pecans.
These dreamy cheesecake bars are loaded with coconut and lime.
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To make the pretty pink filling, whip together strawberries, cream cheese, and heavy whipping cream.
This dessert is indeed as delicious as it looks.
Jimmy Carter Dessert
Call it a Jimmy Carter cake or peanut butter-chocolate delightwe don’t care.
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We still love the cream cheese-peanut butter layer sandwiched on top of a graham cracker and chopped peanut crust.
Allow the dish to chill for a few minutes between layering.
Cream Cheese Brownies
These beauties are everything you love about brownies, but better.
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Sweetened cream cheese is dolloped over classic brownie batter, then swirled in for a stunning marble effect.
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