574 make cheese recipes

Irish curd cake: a traditional sieved cottage cheese cheesecake in a shortbread crust with lemon zest and a sugar-butter glaze. Light alternative to heavy American cheesecake.

A no-bake cheesecake with a cloud-light filling of cream cheese, whipped cream, and stiff egg whites set on a buttery graham cracker crust. Crowned with a homemade cooked strawberry sauce.

No-bake eggnog cheesecake built on a crumb crust, with sieved cottage cheese, gelatin, and whipped cream folded into a spiced eggnog custard. Light, airy, and finished with a dusting of nutmeg.

Low fat yogurt key lime pie made with strained yogurt cheese, powdered sugar, and fresh key lime juice. Three ingredients, no eggs, no condensed milk. A no-bake pie that tastes shockingly close to the classic. Optional graham cracker crust.

Kolache cookies with a cream cheese pastry dough folded around fruit jam and dusted with powdered sugar. A three-ingredient Czech-style pastry that melts in your mouth.

Turn frozen bread dough into warm, garlic butter breadsticks topped with Parmesan in under 30 minutes. Just slice, bake, brush, and dip into marinara.

Crispy deep-fried ricotta fritters coated in ladyfinger crumbs with orange zest and nutmeg, served warm with raspberry sauce. An Italian-style dessert that's golden outside and creamy within.

Triple-chocolate cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust with both unsweetened and semi-sweet chocolate melted into the cream cheese filling. Rich, velvety, and unapologetically decadent. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream if you dare.

Hawaiian macadamia nut cheesecake with a graham-macadamia crust, lilikoi (passion fruit) sauce, and strawberry sauce. A tropical island dessert with two fruit sauces.

Italian bread topped with sun-dried tomatoes, black and green olives, garlic, and melted mozzarella. A Mediterranean-style open-faced loaf ready in 20 minutes flat.

Mandarin orange topped sugar cookies with a sweet cream cheese and honey spread. Five ingredients, refrigerated cookie dough shortcut, ready in 30 minutes.

Jam tarts press tender cream cheese pastry around dollops of fruit jam for bite-size, flaky tea-time pastries with golden browned edges. A 7-ingredient throwback for the cookie tin.

Garlic focaccia: olive oil bread dough with basil or oregano and parmesan, studded with garlic slivers, brushed with olive oil, baked on a hot pizza stone. Crisp bottom, soft chewy crumb.

Tropical mango-pineapple-lime cheesecake on a gingersnap and macadamia nut crust with crystallized ginger, topped with fresh mango, kiwi, and pineapple slices.

These cookies have a cake-like texture, very moist. The lemon juice and zest add the refreshing citrus taste, and the glaze gives another layer of zing.

No-bake eggless pumpkin chiffon pie layered with sweetened cream cheese, vanilla pudding, pumpkin puree, and warm spices on a graham crust. Light Thanksgiving alternative ready in 2 hours.