Cream Cheese

Stacked with chopped bananas, vanilla pudding, and crunchy Marie biscuits, these individual banana pudding jars are the perfect make-ahead summer dessert.

With three times the fruit flavor, this is the only strawberry cheesecake recipe you’ll ever need.

We’ve got your new favorite cheesecake recipe right here.

This light, fluffy, cloudlike cheesecake wants to get cooked at high heat for a burnt, cracked surface that’s rich with flavor.

Bouncier than a bobblehead and fluffier than a cloud, this cheesecake is a keeper.

A creamy base meets the zing of pickles and lemon, dill, chile flakes and a Cheez-It crust for a salty crunch. Enjoy it cold or hot.

With a miso-boosted cheese sauce and no shortage of potato chips.

This single-layer take on the classic will turn any gathering into a party.

Give the classic cucumber sandwich an herbaceous punch with a lemony cilantro-jalapeño chutney.

With crunch from toasted walnuts and an optional boozy punch from rum-plumped raisins, this is the only carrot cake recipe you’ll ever need.

Bring some retro glamour to your entertaining game with this easy recipe.

This retro American pimiento cheese ball takes minutes to prepare, can be made ahead, and transports well if needed, making it the ideal customizable party app.

A combination of cheeses and a dash of port form the base of this appetizer inspired by Hickory Farms’ iconic cheese ball.

This deliciously moist sweet potato cake recipe from Baltimore’s Crust by Mack is stacked high with thick layers of salted cream cheese frosting.

Four simple ingredients, one party-ready dip that takes mere minutes to blitz together.

Become the relative who has to bring their famous Jell-O salad to every family gathering.

Spiked with jalapeños and garlic, this easy corn casserole is rich, creamy, and yes, extra cheesy.

This homemade cream cheese frosting can be used to add a pleasantly sweet and tangy note to almost any cupcake, layer cake, or any recipe that calls for buttercream.

A whole vanilla bean takes this supremely creamy, wonderfully rich, classic New York–style cheesecake to pro-level.

This is possibly the simplest strawberry cheesecake you’ll ever make: It requires no mixer, no springform pan, and it bakes in 30 minutes.

Canned chickpeas and frozen broccoli keep this one-skillet dinner fast and thrifty, while cream cheese delivers on the creamy Alfredo front.

Calling all project bakers: Here’s a recipe for building a beautiful dome cake, just like the ones you’ve seen all over the internet. 

Inspired by Brazilian bolo de cenoura, this carrot cake skips the tedious step of grating carrots and blends them right into the batter instead. 

This creamy, dreamy vegetarian pasta bake is a cross between spinach ricotta ravioli and baked ziti. Make ahead and freeze it for months for dinner on demand.