Recipes with cream cheese: 7 preparations to innovate in the afternoon coffee

Feel like trying something different for your afternoon coffee? so bet cream cheese recipes. After all, it is a very creamy ingredient that is suitable for both savory and sweet preparations, and can make the difference in an apparently simple dish due to its consistency.

Far beyond an extra soft cheese to spread on toast or bread, cream cheese can enrich recipes you already know. For example, here we teach you how to use it in tarts, in the savory pie and in the roll.

But the most surprising thing is probably its use in sweet recipes! Have you ever thought you could use cream cheese to make a cake that also has dulce de leche and coconut? How about one passion fruit mousse that has cheese as an essential ingredient? Sounds great, see?

Check out our selection of cream cheese recipes not to be left out. Make your afternoon coffee even more delicious with these dishes:

Cream cheese, pineapple and ham pie

Cream Cheese, Pineapple and Ham Pie – Photo: Shutterstock

Time: 1h10

Performance: 30 units

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 cup ricotta cheese passed through a sieve
• 1 cup wheat flour (tea)
• 1/2 cup butter (salted)
• margarine for greasing
• 1 egg yolk for brushing

Filling

• 300 g of cream cheese
• 200 g chopped pineapple in syrup
• 300 g of minced ham
• Salt and black pepper to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Mix all the ingredients of the dough and knead well to a smooth consistency.
2. Divide the dough into equal sized balls
3. Line tart molds greased with margarine with the mixture, leaving a little of the batter out of the mold to finish
4. For the filling, mix all the ingredients
5. Fill the cake with a dessert spoonful of the filling, coat the cake with the remaining dough and brush with the egg yolk.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown
7. Serve immediately.

Tuna pie and cream cheese

Tuna and cream cheese pie – Photo: Shutterstock

Time: 30min (+1h of fridge)

Performance: 6 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 package of crustless bread (250 g)
• 1 cup of catupiry® type curd
• Cherry tomatoes and straw potatoes for garnish

tuna filling

• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 1/2 chopped onion
• 2 cans of whole drained tuna
• 1/2 cup chopped green olives

cream cheese spread

• 2 cups cream cheese (tea)
• 1 cup cream (milk)
• Chopped parsley to taste

Method of preparation:

1. For the tuna filling, heat a frying pan with olive oil over medium heat and saute the onion until golden brown
2. Add the tuna, the olives and quickly sauté
3. Turn off and then book
4. Meanwhile, for the cream cheese, mix all ingredients together and set aside.
5. To assemble, in a medium English pie pan, lined with aluminum foil, make layers of bread, tuna filling, breadcrumbs, and cream cheese spread
6. Repeat the layers, ending with the bread.
7. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Unmold, unmold onto a tray and cover the whole cake with Catupiry®
8. Decorate with cherry tomatoes and straw potatoes before serving.

Ham and cheese roll with cream cheese

Ham and Cheese Roll with Cream Cheese – Photo: Shutterstock

Time: 1h20 (+1h rest)

Performance: 60 units

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 2 tablets of fresh brewer’s yeast (30g)
• 1 tablespoon of salt
• 2 tablespoons of sugar
• 2 cups of milk (tea)
• 4 tablespoons butter at room temperature
• 2 eggs
• 5 cups wheat flour (tea)
• Soft wheat flour for flouring
• margarine for greasing
• 1 egg yolk for brushing

Filling

• 20 slices of mozzarella cut into 3 pieces
• 20 slices of ham, cut into 3 pieces
• 2 cups cream cheese (tea)
• 1 teaspoon (coffee) of oregano

Method of preparation:

1. In a bowl mix the yeast, salt and sugar until dissolved
2. Add the milk, butter, egg and mix
3. Add the flour, a little at a time, mixing with your hands until a homogeneous mass is formed.
4. If necessary, add more flour
5. Cover and let rest for 30 minutes
6. Roll out the dough on a floured surface until it is thin and cut it into small rectangles.
7. On each rectangle put a piece of mozzarella, a piece of ham and then a portion of cream cheese mixed with oregano.
8. Roll them up into small rolls and place them in a large greased pan, side by side.
9. Cover and leave to rest for another 30 minutes.
10. Brush with egg yolk and bake in a preheated medium oven for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
11. Withdrawn, transfer to a plate and serve after.

cream cheese blinis

Cream Cheese Blinis – Photo: Shutterstock

Time: 30 minutes

Performance: 20 units

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 20 mini pita breads
• Olive oil for greasing and brushing
• Parsley leaves and pink pepper to garnish
• cream cheese spread:
• 1 cup cream cheese (tea)
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 2 tablespoons of chopped parsley

Method of preparation:

1. For the cream cheese spread, beat the cream cheese, olive oil and parsley in a blender for 1 minute.
2. Place in a pastry bag fitted with a pitanga tip and set aside.
3. Meanwhile, brush the sandwiches with olive oil and spread them out in a large greased baking dish.
4. Bake in a preheated medium oven for 8 minutes or until lightly browned.
5. Remove from the oven and then leave to cool
6. Decorate with the cream cheese on the toasted buns and garnish with parsley leaves and pink pepper.
7. Serve immediately.

Stuffed bread with turkey breast, cherry tomatoes and cream cheese

Stuffed bread with turkey breast, cherry tomatoes and cream cheese – Photo: Shutterstock

Time: 20 minutes

Performance: 4 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 Italian bread
• 1 cup cream cheese (tea)
• 1 cup mozzarella (chopped)
• 1 cup turkey breast (diced)
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes (halved)
• Mozzarella for dusting

Method of preparation:

1. Cut a lid on the Italian bread and remove the core
2. Mix the cream cheese, mozzarella, turkey breast and cherry tomatoes and then place them inside the bread
3. Sprinkle with the mozzarella and bake in a preheated medium oven for 10 minutes to brown
4. Remove from the oven, cut into pieces and serve immediately.

cream cheese cake

Cream Cheese Pie – Photo: Shutterstock

Time: 1h20 (+1h of fridge)

Performance: 10 portions

Difficulty: average

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups cream cheese
• 1 cup of butter (tea)
• 5 eggs (whites and yolks separated)
• 2 1/2 cups (tea) wheat flour
• 2 1/2 cups (tea) sugar
• 1 tablespoon of chemical yeast
• Margarine and wheat flour for greasing
• 1/2 cup (tea) guarana flavored soda for sprinkling
• Coconut flakes to decorate

filling and stuffing

• 1 1/2 cups (tea) creamy dulce de leche
• 1 1/2 cups cream cheese
• 1 box of cold cream (200g)
• 4 tablespoons of icing sugar

Method of preparation:

1. Beat the cream cheese with the butter in the mixer for 5 minutes
2. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition.
3. Add the sifted flour and sugar and mix until smooth.
4. Add the yeast and the whipped egg whites and mix gently with the cream.
5. Pour into a greased and floured 26cm diameter pan and bake in a preheated medium oven for 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
6. Leave to cool and unmold
7. Meanwhile, for the filling/topping, beat the dulce de leche with the cream cheese in a mixer for 3 minutes.
8. Add the cream and beat until smooth
9. Still beating, add the sugar little by little.
10. Then divide into 3 parts and set aside
11. Cut the cake into 3 parts with a bread knife or string and divide the soda into 3 parts
12. To assemble, place a slice of cake on a large plate, sprinkle with 1 part soda and cover with 1 part filling.
13. Repeat the process with the cake, soda and the remaining cream, making layers and then finishing with the cream smoothing well over the whole cake.
14. Sprinkle with coconut and refrigerate for 1 hour before serving.

Passion fruit mousse with cream cheese

Passion fruit mousse with cream cheese – Photo: Shutterstock

Time: 30min (+3h of fridge)

Performance: 6 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 2 egg whites
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 cup Philadelphia® cream cheese
• 1 can of ice cream
• 1 can of condensed milk
• 1/2 packet of unflavored gelatin powder
• 1 cup of natural passion fruit juice

Syrup

• Pulp of 1 passion fruit
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 3 tablespoons of water

Method of preparation:

1. Beat the egg whites with the sugar until stiff and set aside.
2. Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese, heavy cream and condensed milk in a blender for 1 minute.
3. Mix gelatin with juice and dissolve in a water bath
4. Pour into a blender and blend to combine.
5. Pour into a bowl, add the egg whites kept aside and mix gently.
6. Transfer to the refractory and leave to rest in the fridge for 3 hours.
7. For the syrup, heat the passion fruit pulp, sugar and water over low heat for 3 minutes.
8. Leave to cool, remove the mousse from the fridge and then cover with the syrup
9. Serve immediately.

Source: Terra

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