Cream cheese

Fruitcake Cheesecake Bars – a very festive and easy cookie bar recipe with a spiced butter crumble surrounding a dried fruit cheesecake center.

Mango Cream Cheese Scones. Differently delicious scones made with cream cheese baked right in along with chunks of sweet mango. Weekend brunch perfect!

Learning how to bake the perfect cheesecake is all about quality ingredients, an uncomplicated recipe and mastering the simple method.

Carrot Cake Cookies. Soft and chewy carrot cake cookies that are delicious all on their own but even better sandwiched together with classic cream cheese frosting.

Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake Shortcake. A very special celebration cake featuring a raspberry swirl cheesecake atop a butter scratch cake, all covered in luscious vanilla whipped cream. We were celebrating the birthday of a friend recently and I wanted to include two favourite things in an idea for a new cake recipe. Those, of course are …

Another tasty little hors d’ouevre for the party buffet table. These make good use of frozen puff pastry, some sweet roasted red peppers and cream cheese and little slivers of prosciutto in this tasty little sandwich puff that’s bursting with flavor.  For dozens of other party food and hors d’ouevre recipes check out our Facebook …

This simple recipe idea was another fridge cleaner I came up with using leftover stuff in my fridge as a last minute dessert. I think a little creme anglaise might go well with this one too…well, then again, what doesn’t? Serves 4 1 sheet frozen puff pastry (about 12x 12 inches) ½ cup partridgeberry jam 2 …

An indulgent weekend brunch idea; stuffed French toast with Honey Cream cheese & served with blueberry sauce. You’ll want to invite folks over for this one!

I make a number of different kinds of stuffed French toast and this one was the result this morning of some leftover Whole Wheat and Raisin Bread from the fantastic Georgestown Bakery here in St. John’s. Add to that a little inventiveness between Spouse and I on a quiet Sunday morning with the kids away …

Partridgeberry Apple Cheesecake. Cranberries can easily be substituted for Newfoundland favourite partridgeberries (lingonberries) in this easy cheesecake. Credit for this Partridgeberry Apple Cheesecake goes to Spouse, who has been in the kitchen for the past day or so making desserts for a school function this evening. Actually, I have been quite remiss in giving her …