Our Best Ideas for Cream Cheese
If your go-to for enjoying cream cheese is schmearing on a bagel, well, we get that. But! Cream cheese is so much more than that. It’s so versatile, as accomplished at the dessert course as at the breakfast bar, playing nicely with delicate flavors and lending a bewitching tang and creamy complexity to any savory dish that it’s melted into. We recommend always keeping a tub of this rock star ingredient in the house, because you never know when you’ll need a little extra something in an easy pantry recipe—or when you’ll just be in the mood for a bagel. Getting hungry? Once you try cream cheese in Alfredo, you may never go back. The resulting sauce is silky and will not break or curdle! It just envelops each noodle and pea and carries the flavor of the Parmesan.
