Cream Cheese: The Cheese that Pleases Me!

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Please Your Palate with These Cream Cheese Recipes

I just love Cream Cheese! I love it straight on a bagel, stuffed in something, or smothered with onion on a cracker. I also love Cream Cheese Cake!

Highlighted here are a few of my favorite Cream Cheese Recipes...

A Cream Cheese Recipe with a Little Kick!

Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapenos



Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapenos



These make a great appetizer at any party. One 8 oz package of cream cheese, with a few additions, will make up to 20 jalapeno halves. More if you select smaller jalapenos. However, in my experience, the larger the jalapeno, the milder the heat.

Making the Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapenos

What You Need:

10 large Jalapenos, halved and cleaned
1 8oz package of Cream Cheese (softened)
1/4 cup shredded Jack and Cheddar cheese
4 slices of bacon
1 clove garlic (minced)
1/4 cup chopped white onion

To soften your Cream Cheese you set it on your counter. Do not microwave or heat.

Cut your bacon in small pieces. Begin cooking your bacon in a fry pan. When it is almost done add your onion and garlic to brown slightly. Drain the fat and set aside to cool.

Check your Cream Cheese. If it is softened, put it in a mixing bowl. Add the shredded cheese and cooled bacon, garlic, and onion mixture.

Use a butter knife to mix the ingredients together. Cut the additions into the Cream Cheese until the filling is smooth and evenly distributed. I've found a butter knife works better than a spoon or fork for mixing this. It also makes stuffing your jalapenos a little easier. Completely fill your jalapeno halves with heaping helpings of the Cream Cheese stuffing.

At this point you have two options. You can eat the appetizers as they are, which is really good; or you can heat your oven to 375 degrees and bake your Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapenos for 10 minutes.

If you choose to bake these, do so just before your guests arrive. Serve them warm. They will sit well and remain good to eat as they cool.

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This little mixing bowl set is awesome! I love the lids for covering my cream cheese creations while they chill or rest. I also love the size options. The small mixing bowl works perfectly for many of my dip creations!

Cream Cheese Ball

Great for Crackers!

Cream Cheese Ball!



Cream Cheese Ball



This Cream Cheese recipe is sure to please! It goes great on any cracker or even mini bagels. I love to serve this at Christmas parties because it is so colorful and good.

Create a Cream Cheese Ball

Great for Crackers!

Cream Cheese Ball Recipe



What You Need:

1 8oz package of Cream Cheese (softened)
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar Cheese
4 slices of Bacon (cooked)
1 clove garlic minced
1/4 cup red onion chopped
2 green onions chopped

Set your Cream Cheese out to soften on the counter. Do not microwave or heat. Cook 4 slices of bacon, drain, cool, and chop to bits.

Once your Cream Cheese is soft, mix in the shredded Cheddar, minced garlic, and a portion of your red and green-onion. You should reserve enough of the chive from the green onion and about 1 tbsp of red onion to coat the ball once it is formed.

Mix all the ingredients together using a butter knife. As I mentioned above the knife really makes mixing easier.

To form your cheese ball, you can use your hands. But it's rather messy. When I'm shopping for my parties, I like to grab a few extra produce baggies to use as "gloves" for this job.

Leave the Cream Cheese mixture in the mixing bowl and round it out. Once round, transfer it to your serving dish flat side down. Fix any distortions. Top with remaining green and red onion. Cover and chill until ready to serve.

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Cream Cheese Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes

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What You Need:

20-25 Cherry tomatoes
1 8oz package Cream Cheese (softened)
1/4 cup shredded Cheddar Cheese
1/2 cup frozen deveined Salad Shrimp (defrosted, drained well, and chopped)
1 clove Garlic (minced)
1 tbsp Parsley
1 tsp Lemon juice

Set your Cream Cheese out to soften on the counter. Do not microwave or heat.

Rinse and clear any stems or leaves from your Cherry Tomatoes and allow to dry well. set your tomatoes, stem side down, on a cutting board. Cut the bottom off and clean out the pulp and seeds. (Leaving the stem side intact limits rolling during display.)

A melon baller works well for this. If you do not have one you can use a small measuring spoon or a metal baby spoon.

Combine your softened Cream Cheese, shredded Cheddar, chopped Shrimp, Garlic, Parsley, and Lemon juice. Mix well.

Stuffing your Cherry Tomatoes is a tedious job. The method that works best for me is small scoops with a butter knife.

Some people have suggested I use a cake decorator with a large nozzle...I ended up clogging the nozzle with shrimp and breaking the bag. This was not a nice mess to clean up. It was also a waste of good filling. You can try it, if you want to take the risk.

Set your Cream Cheese Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes on a serving platter, cover, and chill until ready to serve.

How About some Cream Cheese Variety?

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Cream Cheese Recipes Served up Right!

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Your Cream Cheese Thoughts

Do you like your Cream Cheese straight or leaded?

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Give it to me on a bagel any day!

thewishpearl says:

The best is on toasted pita bread:)

Shelly says:

Cream cheese is great by itself, served on top of, mixed inside anything. I limit myself on buying it because it just seems to disappear!

stargazer00 says:

How can I decide? I love it both ways!

Mix it in a recipe please!

BusyMOM says:

believe it or not, I LOVE cream cheese with ruffles potato chips. It's my all time favorite comfort food! Great lens!

Eclectic_Muse says:

I know, it's hard to choose!

 

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  • thewishpearl Jul 4, 2009 @ 7:12 am | in reply to Eclectic_Muse | delete
    have lensrolled your lens to my cream cheese and yogurt lens:)
  • Eclectic_Muse Apr 22, 2009 @ 7:13 am | in reply to spirituality | delete
    Thank you! I am honored!!!
  • spirituality Apr 19, 2009 @ 12:29 pm | delete
    Great lens - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
  • Eclectic_Muse Apr 8, 2009 @ 5:11 am | in reply to thewishpearl | delete
    I've never tried to make my own cream cheese. Now that's a thought worth trying. I'm going to look for some recipes now.
  • thewishpearl Apr 3, 2009 @ 5:34 pm | delete
    Nice lens, I am a fan of cream cheese as well, in fact I make my own, it is super easy!
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