Cream Cheese

This deliciously moist sweet potato cake recipe from Baltimore’s Crust by Mack is stacked high with thick layers of salted cream cheese frosting.

Four simple ingredients, one party-ready dip that takes mere minutes to blitz together.

Become the relative who has to bring their famous Jell-O salad to every family gathering.

Spiked with jalapeños and garlic, this easy corn casserole is rich, creamy, and yes, extra cheesy.

This homemade cream cheese frosting can be used to add a pleasantly sweet and tangy note to almost any cupcake, layer cake, or any recipe that calls for buttercream.

A whole vanilla bean takes this supremely creamy, wonderfully rich, classic New York–style cheesecake to pro-level.

This is possibly the simplest strawberry cheesecake you’ll ever make: It requires no mixer, no springform pan, and it bakes in 30 minutes.

Canned chickpeas and frozen broccoli keep this one-skillet dinner fast and thrifty, while cream cheese delivers on the creamy Alfredo front.

Calling all project bakers: Here’s a recipe for building a beautiful dome cake, just like the ones you’ve seen all over the internet. 

Inspired by Brazilian bolo de cenoura, this carrot cake skips the tedious step of grating carrots and blends them right into the batter instead. 

This creamy, dreamy vegetarian pasta bake is a cross between spinach ricotta ravioli and baked ziti. Make ahead and freeze it for months for dinner on demand.

A smidge of almond extract delivers a boost of flavor to our best vanilla cake recipe, and the cream cheese buttercream frosting takes it over the top.

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

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

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.

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.