10 Decadent Cream Cheese Desserts

Sweet, tangy, and irresistibly luscious, cream cheese desserts are in a class all their own. While cheesecake may be the first dessert you think of, cream cheese can go into all kinds of desserts—from cakes and pies to cookies, candies, and even ice cream. Make this crowd-pleasing collection of recipes for friends and family, or make them for bake sales and buffets. They're all guaranteed to be hits.

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No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie With Cream Cheese Filling

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Peanut butter loving kids and adults will cheer for this nutty pie that requires no baking whatsoever. Cream cheese, peanut butter, and a few other ingredients are folded into a prepared graham cracker crust, then chilled. It's a wonderful alternative to a traditional birthday cake—just top with chopped peanut butter cups for added flair.
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Chocolate Cream Cheese Truffles

Elizabeth LaBau

Chocolate cream cheese truffles make an impressive after-dinner dessert or holiday gift idea and need only a handful of ingredients. Make them easily in well under an hour with cocoa powder, cream cheese, unsweetened baking chocolate, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and just a little salt.
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Pumpkin Cake Roll With Cream Cheese Filling

The Spruce / Cara Cormack

Pumpkin puree makes this top-rated, delectable cake roll super moist. It's filled with an irresistible cream cheese filling that will keep you coming back for more. The cake also freezes well in individual slices, for serving when friends and family stop by.
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No-Bake Cool Whip Cheesecake

Leah Maroney

These individual no-bake cheesecakes combine cream cheese and Cool Whip dessert topping for a rich and fluffy treat. Top them with fresh berries, slices of kiwi, chunks of pineapple, or other favorite fruit. You can make these up to two days in advance and store them tightly wrapped in the refrigerator. Add the fruit just before serving.

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Carrot Cake Ice Cream

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Ice cream that tastes like your favorite carrot cake? Yes, please! This scrumptious recipe uses all the ingredients of traditional carrot cake, including cream cheese, cinnamon, golden raisins, and walnuts (plus optional rum for an adults-only dessert).
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Swiss Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

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Old-fashioned Swiss chocolate cake is made from scratch in this recipe, with evaporated milk. It's frosted with a to-die-for chocolate cream cheese frosting, making it a fantastic birthday cake or an impressive dessert for dinner parties.
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Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies

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Lovely lemon cream cheese cookies have a soft and tender texture and bright-tasting citrus icing, perfect for enjoying with a cup of afternoon tea or coffee. They're super easy to prepare, bake in about 10 minutes, and will probably be gobbled up faster than that.
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Cream Cheese Thumbprint Cookies

Diana Rattray

Classic thumbprint cookies are made with rich butter and cream cheese dough and filled with your favorite jam or fruit preserves. Kids will have fun helping you to put the thumbprint indentations in the center.

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Pineapple Pie With Cream Cheese

Diana Rattray

Just a handful ingredients are needed to make refreshing tropical pineapple pie. Heavy cream, cream cheese, and sugar are whipped into a fluffy filling and folded into a prepared pastry shell with crushed pineapples. Simply chill and serve.
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No-Bake Cherry Cream Cheese Dessert

The Spruce Eats / Leah Maroney

Dessert is easy with this layered cherry and cream dessert that requires no cooking. Sweetened cream cheese and chilled whipping cream are combined with cherry pie filling, then chilled in the fridge until set inside a homemade graham cracker crumb crust.

10 Decadent Cream Cheese Desserts That Are Impossible to Resist