Cream cheese

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake with mini chocolate chips is the easiest cheesecake! No springform pan needed and it whips up in about 15 minutes! Everyone needs a handful of recipes that you know are easy, foolproof, and a family favorite—this Chocolate Chip Cheesecake recipe is one of those! I came across this recipe in a magazine …

These No Bake Oreo Balls are made with cream cheese, Oreos, and white or dark chocolate. These are easy to make and a great way to get kids involved in the kitchen! Isn’t it funny how sometimes the simplest things can bring the most joy? These Oreo®️ balls, for example, are one of the easiest …

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie that with a creamy, rich filling poured over a chocolatey crust and covered with a chocolate glaze—this is the perfect dessert if you’re a chocolate and peanut butter lover! Chocolate and peanut butter together are two of my great loves—I’m old enough to remember the old commercials where a Hershey’s chocolate …

Lemon Cream is a quick and easy no-bake creamy dessert made with cream cheese and lemon curd. Spread it on cookies, use as a pastry filling, or as a simple treat with fresh berries. Don’t you love easy desserts? I sure do! This lemon cream is great by itself and also perfect in a berry trifle—which I …

Cherry Cream Cheese Pie is a delightfully easy no-bake pie that is perfect year round for any occasion. Kids and adults love it! This is a great make-ahead recipe that will keep in the refrigerator for a couple of days before you need it.  You probably remember this cherry cheese pie from church potlucks because …

These cucumber tea sandwiches are simple to make and will lend an old-fashioned elegance to your next party! Made with cream cheese and thin white bread, cucumber sandwiches are always a crowd pleaser. There’s something about cucumber tea sandwiches with cream cheese that’s reminiscent of Great Gatsby days, of times when elegance reigned and things were …

Cream Cheese Pound Cake is sweet, buttery, moist, and delicious—the perfect pound cake! It’s an easy go-to cake for any occasion and it’s my family’s favorite cake! Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe Remember those cookbooks that churches or various ladies’ groups put together? Not even a hard cover book, just pages held together with a …

This Pumpkin Roll recipe is an easy and impressive dessert all year long. We think this version is the BEST with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves—with a smooth and creamy filling from cream cheese and powdered sugar.  About a dozen years ago, my daughter requested a pumpkin roll for our Thanksgiving menu, in addition to the …

Cream Cheese Banana Pudding is a delicious and easy version of banana pudding with a graham cracker crust, a cream cheese layer, vanilla custard, and of course, bananas! At most Southern gatherings, there are a few dishes that are sure to grace the table: fried chicken, barbecue, pound cake, chess pie, and banana pudding. And …

These easy Orange Rolls are made with refrigerated French bread dough, orange marmalade, and orange zest–so simple and kids love them! You can use either a glaze or a cream cheese icing for these simple, easy orange rolls and tantalize your guests with the smell of a bakery right in your kitchen. Now that our …

Easy Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze is a simple recipe using the Cream Cheese Pound Cake base and adding a zesty lemony glaze—it’s fresh, pretty, and lip-smacking good! Pound cakes are ubiquitous to any Southern gathering that includes food…and isn’t that every Southern gathering? A lot of old pound cake recipes, while they have …

Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing made with Hershey’s cocoa, butter, and powdered sugar. It’s quick and easy with no cooking required! Sometimes you want a delicious, simple Chocolate Buttercream Frosting, and sometimes you want a slightly tangy Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing. Actually, I usually always prefer a cream cheese frosting. Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing This one …

This Pumpkin Sheet Cake falls into the OMG is this for real category of recipes. It’s moist, easy to make, full of fun fall flavor and fragrant spices, and best of all, topped with the most amazing white chocolate and cream cheese frosting. The cake is made in a half-sheet pan so it’s just right …

Toasted Cream Cheese Pound Cake flavored with butter and broiled just long enough to get toasty and brown! This is so perfect with a little fruit compote or caramel sauce! We have had a few glorious days here in Georgia, with cool breezes teasing us as the last vestiges of summer begin to fade into fall. Of …

A classic key lime pie recipe with a little cream cheese added and fresh squeezed juice from key limes and regular limes. It’s easy and refreshing!  Spring quietly slipped into summer yesterday but I’m not sure anyone noticed. Around here it feels as though we are deep in the sweltering dog days of August and …

A luscious strawberry sheet cake with fresh strawberries and cream cheese frosting that’s always a crowd-pleaser and easy to take along for potlucks. The arrival of spring is heralded by daffodils, dogwoods, do-it-yourself projects, and one of my favorite loves, strawberries. Since we’re so close to Florida, we start getting beautiful fresh strawberries in February …

Isn’t springtime synonymous with picnics? It’s neither too cold nor too hot, the gnats are not out in full force, trees and flowers are filled with green buds and it feels as though we’ve been cooped up in the dreary dark of winter for years. Along about the middle to end of March I long …

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting—moist, spicy banana cake with tangy cream cheese frosting! Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting This banana cake. Oh, my goodness, this cake. It’s a little like banana bread, but not bread. More spicy, with cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, and cloves. This banana cake is super moist and graced with tangy cream …

Don’t you love easy recipes that make everyone think you slaved away in the kitchen for hours? I do! This is one of those. You can make this Cream Cheese Danish the morning you want to serve it or the day before. Maybe even 2 days before! All you need are 2 packages of refrigerated …

Classic Cheesecake Recipe for a New York style cheesecake that is perfect every time! It’s rich, creamy and luscious and can be served plain or with a caramel, chocolate, or raspberry topping. My family tends to disagree about a lot of things. We are almost all on a different place on the political spectrum. Some …

Creamy Green Herb Dip is cream cheese and sour cream-based, with lots of fresh herbs and garlic. And the best thing is that it’s all thrown in the food processor so it’s QUICK and EASY! Spring is finally here and I’m so glad! I love feeling the warm sunshine and seeing the green buds everywhere, …

Cinnamon rolls without yeast are easy with no waiting on the dough to rise! Filled with brown sugar and cinnamon and topped with cream cheese icing, these are a special breakfast treat! We’ve had lots of 20-somethings at our house for the past few weeks. Malorie and a couple of her friends came up for …