27 fat cream cheese recipes

Cheesy enchilada casserole layered with seasoned ground beef, black beans, corn tortillas, and melted cheddar. A weeknight Tex-Mex bake topped with shredded lettuce, sour cream, and salsa.

Mexican style chicken tortilla soup that's packed full of beans, veggies and chicken for a filling dinner.

Full-spread taco bar: chipotle-spiced ground beef simmered in tomato broth, chunky homemade guacamole with lime and garlic, and fresh serrano pico. Twelve tacos' worth of filling with every fixing on the table.

Belgian cheesecake with a chewy oat-and-brown-sugar crust and a creamy cream cheese and cottage cheese filling. Less sweet and lighter than American-style cheesecake.

A two-layer banana cake made with honey-soaked oats, mashed bananas, and butter, frosted with a smooth cream cheese icing. Hearty, moist, and naturally sweetened with a full cup of honey.

Three-layer cranberry cheese bars with a buttery oat crumble crust, tangy cream cheese filling, and whole berry cranberry sauce on top. Makes 24 bars for holiday baking trays.

Orange-butterscotch cheesecake on an oat-and-brown-sugar crust, scented with orange zest and crowned with homemade butterscotch sauce. Bright citrus and deep caramel in one dramatic dessert.

Oatmeal Carrot Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting recipe

For a bread machine. I've done these both 'full fat' and 'reduced fat'. It's hard to tell the difference, so we go reduced, including using light (Neufchatel) cream cheese. I've tried ALL the fat free cream cheeses and NONE of them work.

Lighter pumpkin cream cheese pie with fat-free cream cheese, egg whites, and maple syrup in a phyllo pastry crust. All the fall flavor with less guilt per slice.

Light pumpkin praline cheesecake: low-fat cottage cheese stands in for cream cheese, wheat germ replaces graham crumbs in the crust, and pumpkin pie spice carries the flavor. Topped with maple-drizzled pecans.