Cream Cheese

Tangy sour cherries meet sweet and pillowy cheesecake in the ultimate spring-to-summer dessert.

Extremely plush, fine-crumbed, and dare-we-say moist, this is like the best wedding cake—and you mix it entirely by hand.

From the always-sunny brain of Flour Shop’s Amirah Kassem, this colorful, festive cake with a surprise filling is about as celebratory as it gets.

This cheesecake has a vanilla pound cake base, because why the hell not? You bake the cheesecake first, then the pound cake on top, and flip the whole thing over before decorating and serving. Room temperature eggs, cream cheese, and butter are vital to an evenly mixed cheesecake and fluffy pound cake. If you’re in a hurry, place the eggs in a bowl of hot tap water and zap the butter and cream cheese in the microwave in 10-second increments to quickly warm them up.

The most casual-cool carrot cake of all time.

Serving this creamy, delicious dip in a bread bowl is not mandatory, but we highly recommended going for it.

This is the light, fluffy, cloudlike cheesecake that wants to get burnt, cracked, and cooked at high heat. Which also means this is the cheesecake that’s impossible to mess up.

Meet your new favorite birthday cake.

An easy, cheesy dip you can serve this with pretzels, your favorite kind of crackers, or a platter of crudités.

This stuff is crazy good.

If what you really want is a delicious clam dip that comes together in less than 15 minutes, this recipe is for you.

Keep a log stashed in your freezer AT ALL TIMES.

You may be able to find pre-made everything spice in the grocery store for these palmiers. If not, it’s easy enough to make. Double the recipe and keep it around for topping plain yogurt.

Earthy, nutrient-rich whole grain flours give this classic banana loaf cake recipe some added personality.

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

Room temperature cream cheese and butter are key to a smooth frosting (cold ingredients will form hard beads). Take them both out of the refrigerator three hours ahead of time.

Taste a fig first to see how sweet it is... and thus how much honey you want to add.

If you have leftover "everything" spice, stir it into Greek yogurt drizzled with olive oil for a savory breakfast.

You want all of your cheese ball ingredients at room temperature to make sure the goat cheese mixture is smooth and homogenous.