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Do you know what one secret baking ingredient professional chefs use all the time? Cream cheese! Cream cheese makes almost every dessert taste luxurious and creamy and has the perfect balance of sweet and tangy. I know that it is going to become your new favorite baking ingredient and you are going to want to add it to everything! Start with these amazing cream cheese recipes and see how magical this one basic ingredient can be.
Cream Cheese Bars
These Cream Cheese Bars are made with yellow cake mix for a quick and easy dessert. With a crisp crust and soft center, they’re perfectly sweet and deliciously decadent!
Go to the recipe: Cream Cheese Bars
Cream Cheese Brownies
These Cream Cheese Brownies are and made using a brownie mix and a homemade cheesecake-like topping! Delicious fudgy goodness in every bite! These will be your new favorite brownie.
Go to the recipe: Cream Cheese Brownies With Box Cake Mix
Cream Cheese Mints
It is amazing how easy it is to make these little cream cheese mints. I guarantee that you won’t be able to eat just one of these little melt-in-your mouth sweets!
Go to the recipe: Cream Cheese Mints
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
My Cream Cheese Pound Cake recipe is rich, decadent, and packed with sour cream and cream cheese to create a perfectly dense, moist crumb. Top it with berries or whipped cream for the perfect dessert.
Go to the recipe: Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Cranberry Cream Cheese Dessert
Rich, sweet cream cheese goes perfectly with the tangy, tart cranberries. The white and red color contrast is also almost too pretty to eat! I am in love with these cranberry cream cheese bars. They are the perfect blend of sweet and tart, creamy and rich. You will want to bake these all year long!
Go to the recipe: Cranberry Cream Cheese Dessert
No Bake Lemon Cream Cheese Pie
This no-bake Lemon Cream Cheese Pie is one of my favorites! It’s creamy, brightened up with a squeeze of lemon juice, and a cinch to make.
Go to the recipe: Lemon Cream Cheese Pie
Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies
Cream cheese spritz cookies are a holiday classic! No Christmas cookie spread is complete without a batch of festive spritz cookies with holiday shapes and sprinkles. Here’s how to make them.
Go to the recipe: Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies
Carrot Cake Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting
These Carrot Cake Muffins with Cream Cheese Glaze are super fluffy and moist and feature all the sweet, cinnamon flavor you love in classic carrot cake!
Go to the recipe: Carrot Cake Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting
Oreo Truffles
These easy Oreo Truffles With Cream Cheese are a decadent treat, but oh-so-simple to make! Cookies-and-creme crumbs and cream cheese are rolled into truffles, then dipped in melted chocolate to create this crowd-pleasing homemade candy.
Go to the recipe: Oreo Truffles
Crescent Roll Cheesecake
Crescent roll cheesecake is one of the easiest types of cheesecake to make. The sweet cream cheese filling is delicious with flaky, buttery crescent rolls. I also love that they are easy to slice and serve.
Go to the recipe: Crescent Roll Cheesecake
Cheesecake Dip
Whether you serve it as a snack or dessert, this easy Cheesecake Dip is destined to be a hit! It has all the sweet-and-tangy flavor of cheesecake in the form of an irresistible dip.
Go to the recipe: Cheesecake Dip
No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake
No-bake chocolate cheesecake is going to be a cream cheese dessert you make all the time. It is effortless to make but tastes incredibly rich and decadent.
Go to the recipe: No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake
