What to cook with cream cheese
48 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use cream cheese. 14 of them are built around it. It turns up most in American, Jewish and Brazilian recipes.
- recipes use it
- 48
- are built around it
- 14
- median total time
- 1 hr 10 min
- ready in 30 minutes or less
- 10
Recipes built around cream cheese
Grandma Rivera's Puerto Rican Queso FlanPuerto Rican
Puerto Rican Flan de Queso - Cream Cheese FlanPuerto Rican · 1 hr 10 min
Flan de Queso (Cheese Flan)Hispanic · 1 hr 20 min
Southern Pimento CheeseAmerican · 20 min
RugelachJewish
Basque CheesecakeSpanish
No Bake Pumpkin CheesecakeAmerican · 20 min
Candy Cane CookiesAmerican · 1 hr 44 min
Homemade Southern Pimento Cheese Recipe (Spread-Dip)Southern · 5 min
Pumpkin CheesecakeAmerican · 7 hr
Bibingka - Filipino Coconut CakeFilipino · 1 hr 15 min
Jewish RugelachMiddle Eastern · 45 min
With cream cheese, in 30 minutes or less
What goes with cream cheese
Ingredients that most often share a recipe with cream cheese, out of 48 recipes.
- Butter71% of recipes
- Eggs67% of recipes
- Vanilla extract44% of recipes
- Powdered sugar25% of recipes
- Sour cream25% of recipes
- Milk31% of recipes
- Heavy cream23% of recipes
- Cinnamon29% of recipes
How much recipes use
Across 26 recipes that give an amount, the median is 8 oz. Half of them fall between 4 to 8 oz.
Where cream cheese shows up
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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.





