Cream Cheese

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.

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 secret to the fudgiest, most chocolaty brownies is cocoa powder—not melted chocolate. We borrowed chocolate expert Alice Medrich’s technique, then added a cream cheese topping for tangy balance. Don’t overthink your camo design; the brownies will look even better when sliced.

There’s something about that recipe that made it number one…or is it something else?

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.

This is the anti-cheesecake, and it’s all we’ve ever wanted.

These bright, sweet-tart beauties are the perfect addition to the typical cookie plate.

If we had to give this toast a bunch of random personality traits, we’d describe it as a rule-breaking hothead with a softer side.

All the flavored cream cheese devotees out there, this one's for you.

Meet your new favorite birthday cake.

An easy, cheesy dip you can serve this with pretzels, your favorite kind of crackers, or a platter of crudités.

This stuff is crazy good.

If what you really want is a delicious clam dip that comes together in less than 15 minutes, this recipe is for you.

Keep a log stashed in your freezer AT ALL TIMES.