18 Recipes That Make Use Of The Cream Cheese In The Back Of Your Fridge

So you have a love for cream cheese and you may have bought too much. Here are 18 Recipes That Make Use Of The Cream Cheese In The Back Of Your Fridge so it doesn't go to waste. If you like cream cheese, then you are probably pretty prone to buying a lot of it up when there is a sale on. Cream cheese can be expensive, so if it goes on for a good deal at the grocery store, you are probably smart to stock up on it, especially if you use it for recipes a lot. But as with all dairy products, there is an expiry date that means that your cream cheese wont last too long after you purchase it in the store, so having a bunch of great cream cheese recipes like the ones in this list, will come in handy so all of that cream cheese won't go to waste.

Cream cheese is a type of softer cheese made from the milk of cows, and is made by adding in live active culture to fresh cream and allowing it to process for several hours. The cream will turn into kind of a yogurt texture and then that needs to be strained with some cheese cloth to get rid of any extra moisture. This process usually takes around 12 hours. Once it has strained, what we are left with is some lovely soft and spreadable cream cheese that can be used for a number of different purposes and recipes. This process is the process you can do at home to make your very own cream cheese that will make around two cups of cream cheese per one quart of cream. If you make your own cream cheese you will want to use it up even faster than the store bought cream cheese because there will be no preservatives in the home made cream cheese. So these recipes can be used for when you make your own cream cheese too. Store bought cream cheese comes in a brick or a plastic container and is usually able to be used up to two weeks or so after purchasing when kept in the refrigerator.

Sure cream cheese is awesome for spreading onto your toast or bagels, and putting onto crackers when you want a nice, creamy snack, but there are so many other great uses for this creamy cheese. This list of 18 recipes will make really good use of any cream cheese you might have lying around in your fridge and they all look totally delicious. How about a yummy cream cheese brownie recipe to bring some sweetness into your life. The cream cheese brownie recipe includes all of the ingredients you would use in making regular brownies, but then, you add in some yummy cream cheese to create a white marbled top effect. These would be delicious. Another favourite recipe to use cream cheese for is to make cheese cake. There are other cheeses that cheese cake can be made out of like ricotta cheese for example, but there is nothing quite like a cream cheese cheesecake. The cream cheese cheesecake in this line up of recipes is a yummy looking Creme Fraiche Cheesecake with a Brown Butter Streusel. Simple divine. There are also some great dinner recipes involving cream cheese including roasted cauliflower and mashed potatoes. Thank you so much to the folks over at the Bon Appetit food blog and website for their inspiration with these 18 Recipes That Make Use Of The Cream Cheese In The Back Of Your Fridge that we can all put to the test right in our own kitchens. Bon Appetit also features other food and recipe slide shows that will give you so much recipe inspiration to keep your meals interesting. *