1,182 cheese food recipes

Black bottom cupcakes drop a sweet cream cheese filling studded with chocolate chips into chocolate cake mix batter, baking into a self-frosting cupcake. Travel-friendly picnic dessert with no icing to melt.

No-bake lime cheesecake with a honey-graham crust, fat-free cream cheese, evaporated skim milk, and fresh lime juice. Light, low-fat dessert that chills until firm.

Pepperoni and cheddar stuffed pizza bread baked from frozen bread dough. Four ingredients, golden crust, melty cheese center. Easy game-day or after-school snack.

Rich chocolate cheesecake with two pounds of cream cheese, melted semi-sweet chocolate, sour cream, and a chocolate wafer crust. A dense, fudgy showstopper baked low and slow.

Baked cheesecake with sweetened condensed milk, lemon and a sour cream top, finished with cherry pie filling on a graham cracker crust. Creamy, no-water-bath cheesecake.

Creamy cottage cheesecake made with full-fat cottage cheese, cream cheese, sour cream, and eggs on a graham cracker crust. The lighter, tangier alternative to classic cheesecake.

Old-fashioned chess-style custard pie with butter, eggs, evaporated milk and vanilla baked into a single crust. Sweet, silky filling that sets to a glossy finish. A Depression-era Southern classic.

Chocolate chip cherry drop cookies with cream cheese in the dough, maraschino cherries, and a half-cherry crown on each cookie. Holiday-bright bite-sized treats.

Apple cheddar cookies, the unexpected sweet-savory drop cookie. Sharp aged cheddar, chopped apples, cinnamon, and nuts in a buttery dough. Like apple pie meets cheese plate.

Blueberries and cream cheesecake bakes 5 packages of cream cheese over a vanilla wafer crust, finished with a glossy fresh blueberry topping. Make ahead, chill overnight for clean slices.

Italian-style cheesecake with cream cheese and sieved cottage cheese, flavored with espresso and amaretto, baked in a lemon shortcrust shell with a lattice top.

Creamy apple almond crunch bread: quick bread with hidden cream cheese-apple filling, almond crunch top, and an apple jelly glaze. Coffee-shop loaf at home.

Slice-and-bake cream cheese cookies sweetened mostly with fructose for a lower-sugar treat. Tender, lightly sweet refrigerator cookies that bake up in 10 minutes.

Pastry cheesecake crust with butter, sugar, egg, and flour. A sturdier, cookie-like base for springform cheesecakes when graham crumbs feel too crumbly.

Raspberry chocolate swirl cheesecake on a cocoa-vanilla wafer crust. Two batters marbled together for a dramatic black-and-pink presentation.

Kolachkes are Polish-American cream cheese cookies: a tender butter-and-cream-cheese dough wrapped around fruit jam, walnut, or sweet cheese filling. Rolled in powdered sugar instead of flour.