35+ YummY Cream Cheese Recipes

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What can you do with a tub of cream cheese? These simple and quick cream cheese recipes are brilliant for making scrumptious meals and decadent desserts. No matter how you like your cream cheese, I have a recipe for you!

Published Jan 2023/updated Jan, 2025

Top view of a small blue bowl full of sweet cream cheese recipe.

Cream cheese is not only used to top bagels and to make cheesecakes. The smooth, mild cream cheese is incredibly versatile and works beautifully in sweet and savory dishes.

You can stir it through delicious spaghetti to smooth out pasta sauces or whip up quick yet decadent treats using just a handful of ingredients.

Cream cheese adds plenty of dreamy, creamy goodness to pretty much everything!

It’s also convenient and economical, and keeps well in the fridge for about 10 days, making it a terrific staple to keep on hand at all times. It’s absolutely perfect for a quick, delicious family meal.

If you have a brick or a tub of cream cheese in your refrigerator right now, make the most of it with one of these delicious cream cheese recipes, and each is as good as the last.

Now, let’s dig in and enjoy!

Cream Cheese Recipes

Different types of cream cheese

There are many types of this convenient, inexpensive soft cheese: brick, soft, fat-free brick, fat-free soft, light soft, and whipped, with added flavors such as chives, onion, cinnamon, and more.

But what you’ll surely notice is that store-bought cream cheese can be sold in blocks or tubes.

The first one is thicker, and it’s what you need to make cream cheese frostings or cheesecakes. The second one spreads easily and is perfect for pasta recipes and bagels. If you’re based in the UK, you can only get the spreadable option, not the block.

Do you fancy making your own version? I’ve found a clever recipe for making cheese at home; check this out!

Loved cream cheese recipes?

If you’ve enjoyed this collection of cream cheese recipes, you might be interested in more ideas about how to use up ingredients that you might have in your fridge or pantry. Below, you’ll find a few helpful roundups:

If you try one of these cream cheese recipes or have any questions, let me know in the comments below. I would love to hear from you! x

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