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Help!!! I went to Sam's and in a moment of insanity I bought the big huge bar of cream cheese.

Does anyone have cream cheese recipes they would share with me?

I'd appreciate it!

Mmmmmm
I love cream cheese.

First of all, my famous holiday potatoes. These are so good that when I did not make them for our Christmas dinner at city hall, people asked where were my potatoes!

Wash and peel about 6 - 8 medium potatoes. Cut into chunks and boil (like you would for mashed potatoes).
When cooked, put into a bowl, add about 1/2 stick butter and the 8 ounce bar of cream cheese and about 8 ounces of sour cream and salt and pepper to taste. Whip with hand mixer until smooth, put in 9 x 13 baking dish, spinkle paprika on top. Bake for about 30 - 35 minutes .

I have been known to eat bites of these cold from the fridge - sad but true.
Also, these make the greatest potato pancakes from leftovers.

More cream cheese recipes to come.
Julie

Wow! That sounds delicious! I am going to make them tomorrow night for dinner!!

Thank you so much!

I was waiting for someone to reply, so I wouldn't be answering myself!

Here's more:

Blueberry Stuffed French Toast

8 ounces cream cheese
12 slices white bread
1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries
12 eggs
2 cups milk
1/3 cup maple syrup
Thickly spread cream cheese on 6 slices of white bread. Place bread (cream cheese side up) on the bottom of a greased 9 x 13 inch baking dish. Evenly distribute blueberries on top of the bread. Cube the remaining 6 slices of bread and sprinkle over the blueberries. Combine eggs, milk and maple syrup and mix well. Pour this mixture over the bread cubes. Refigerate overnight.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour (1/2 hour covered with aluminum foil, 1/2 hour uncovered). Serve with maple syrup.

Julie

THAT SOUNDS DELICIOUS!!!!!!



I can't wait to try that, it will definitely be this weekend. I will tell you how the recipes work out!

Thanks again!

I'm gonna end up answering myself anyway.
Sorry...

Watergate Salad
1 cup flour
1 stick butter
1 cup chopped nuts
1 3/4 cups confectioner's sugar
8 ounces cream cheese
2 small boxes pistachio instant pudding
3 cups milk
Large tub Cool Whip

In 9 x 13 pan, melt butter. Add flour, 1/2 - 3/4 cup confectioner's sugar and nuts. Press to make crust. Bake at 375 degree oven for 15 minutes.
Cool.

Blend together 1 cup confectioner's sugar and cream cheese.
Add 2 cups cool whip. Spread over cold crust.
Mix pudding and milk and spread over cream chhese mixture. Then spread remaining cool whip on top (2 - 3 cups).
Cill. Cut into squares.
This may be frozen. My mother keeps hers in the freezer. I don't. We eat ours too quickly.

Julie

You are most welcome.

And now, the holy grail of recipes:
My mother's Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing.

3 cups finely Grated Carrots
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups wesson oil
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
4 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt

Beat eggs. Add sugar and wesson oil and beat.
Mix together flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Add flour mixture to egg mixture and beat. Add salt to carrots and add to egg/flour mixture.
Bake in 2 pans 35-40 minutes at 350 degrees (check this - my oven always takes a little longer than my mother's. inset a toothpick and cake is done when it comes out clean).
Cool 5 minutes before removing from pan. Cool completely.
After cooling, slice each layer.

Cream Cheese icing
1 1/2 box powdered sugar
12 ounces cream cheese
1 stick butter
4 teaspoons vanilla

Chopped pecans

Cream all ingredients, except nuts. Ice a layer, then top with nuts before adding the next layer, always covering each layer with a profusion of nuts.
Now, ice the entire outside of cake and cover top and sides completely with pecans.

Keep in fridge.
Cake is better after a day or two.

Julie

what about cream cheese on a bagel or toast. or perhaps cream cheese with tomatoes and some red onion in a sandwich. or cream cheese on its own. how about some really thick spicy sausage with red onion, nice pickle, crispy lettuce smothered with generous helpings of creamy cream cheese. a la tazzy

looks a little like my Mom's recipie! Maybe they knew each other...

We make a big box of Lime jello, split the mixture and get cold so it is partially stiff. 1/2 of the mixture mix with softened cream cheese, the other half cool whip or real whipped cream. After getting cold to stiffen, place a layer of cherries in a shaped-dish then pour in whipped cream jello mixture first, then layer with marachino cherries, then cream cheese mixture and more cherries, when completely jelled, invert the dish on a raised sides plate and you have a holiday centerpiece that is really taisty!

tazzy wrote:

thick spicy sausage with red onion, nice pickle, crispy lettuce smothered with generous helpings of creamy cream cheese.

WOW! That's a winner!

mrsnull, I love watergate salad, but I have never added cream cheese to it. An excellent addition, indeed.

And the carrot cake sounds absolutely divine!

khat, your recipe sounds like it looks as good as it tastes!

Thanks, everybody!

here's one for some "ghetto" tray snacks: take a piece of dried beef (it's in a little jar in the cooler section, Armour I think) a piece of bacon, a little bit of cream cheese and roll it up in the beef slice, add toothpicks. you could add anything I guess, but I always liked just that.

mrsnull wrote:I was waiting for someone to reply, so I wouldn't be answering myself!

Here's more:

Blueberry Stuffed French Toast

8 ounces cream cheese
12 slices white bread
1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries
12 eggs
2 cups milk
1/3 cup maple syrup
Thickly spread cream cheese on 6 slices of white bread. Place bread (cream cheese side up) on the bottom of a greased 9 x 13 inch baking dish. Evenly distribute blueberries on top of the bread. Cube the remaining 6 slices of bread and sprinkle over the blueberries. Combine eggs, milk and maple syrup and mix well. Pour this mixture over the bread cubes. Refigerate overnight.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour (1/2 hour covered with aluminum foil, 1/2 hour uncovered). Serve with maple syrup.

Julie

GOOD LORD this sounds good!!
I'll be trying this one out in a few days.

Lady you started something here!
I remembered a special one my Husband (a chef) uses and the kids love it:
White Pizza:
Large round of the pizza bread or boboli (sp?) bread (or English muffin halves for snacks or appetizers). Heat slightly in a 350 degree oven (or toast lightly)
spread soften cream cheese on warm bread. Layer on sauteed veggies of choice, cooked chicken or meat of choice, and top off with lots of pizza cheese! Heat in oven until cheese is melted.
Veggie suggestions to saute together: garlic, onions, peppers, mushrooms...

take creme cheese, spread into groove of celery stick. chill and serve. i am a chef, no?

Everyone, I just wanted to say, thank you so much for your responses!
I am pretty sure I will use up all of the cream cheese, now

mrsnull: I had the blueberry stuffed toast for breakfast this morning, and it was MAGNIFICENT! It is a recipe that has been put in my special book, and one that I will use from now on!

The Esmer: That sounds fantastic! It would be hard to go wrong with those ingredients, thanks! I will try it this weekend during football.

Khat: I am having the white pizza for dinner this evening. It sounds scrumptious!

sgtnull: Thanks for your entry, but it seems to me its a good thing you have such a fantastic cook for a wife!

Thanks again, everyone! This was fun, I may just do this again with another ingredient!

Here are some more:

Cream Cheese Recipes

Anything from Pam was submitted by me. There are a lot more recipes that use cream cheese as an ingredient, but it's not listed in the recipe title. Be sure to check out the breakfast/brunch recipes; there are quite a few that use cream cheese there.