Spreadable Whipped Cream Cheese (for bagels) offers a technique to keep regular cream cheese soft and spreadable, even when chilled.
Spreadable Whipped Cream Cheese (for bagels)
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
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Spreadable Whipped Cream Cheese (for bagels) is my recipe of the day for Brunch Week. Wow, can you believe #BrunchWeek has been happening for seven years? And on top of that, in a few weeks this blog will have been posting for ten years?
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And before that, all the years with me publishing on other recipes sites and some (now defunct blogs). Who remembers Geocities? Bwahahahahahaaaaaa! And other things in the dawn of time on the internet…
Brunch Week 2023
Welcome to #BrunchWeek! This event has been around for over 7 years. It’s a fun way to share our love for all things brunch related to help celebrate Mother’s Day! We have 11 bloggers sharing over 30 recipes this year!! That’s 30 plus delicious recipes to help celebrate mothers, family, and friends. If you’re putting together a brunch, then you’ll appreciate all the variety this event offers! From cocktails to baked goods and even sandwiches, there’s something for everyone.
Here are today’s #BrunchWeek recipes:
- Caramel Simple Syrup from Tara’s Multicultural Table
- Chipotle Tacos de Papa from Magical Ingredients
- Creamy Caesar Salad Dressing from For the Love of Food
- Guava and Cream Cheese Pastelitos from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Hibiscus Lemonade from Art of Natural Living
- Key Lime Curd Mousse from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
- Lemon Poppy Seed Cheesecake Muffins from The Spiffy Cookie
- Orange Cream Scones from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
- Peanut butter, Bacon and Banana Stuffed Waffles from Jolene’s Recipe Journal
- Spreadable Whipped Cream Cheese (for bagels) from Palatable Pastime
Spreadable Whipped Cream Cheese (for bagels)
Any hoohoo. This is like the whipped cream cheese you can pay extra and buy in the tub. Technically, that is made by a slight different process of cream cheese.
But hey, this tastes the same. Is cheaper at that. And it stays soft without weeping in the fridge for at least a week.
I will eventually figure out how long when I stop eating all of it, but I digress.
Still, I really am torqued over rising prices. I mean, I thought the tubs were expensive before. So you can bet I am happy to cut costs and get stuff ready to spread. No nuking of cold cheese to soften. No waiting forever to warm.
I mean, in the morning, I am sleepy and hangry and want that cheese on my bagel stat. So I can have it while I have my first sip of coffee. You do NOT want to see me before coffee. In the pic I have some bagel thins, which are nice. But there is a bagel bakery not too far called Marx here in Cincinnati. They are the best. Now in second generation ownership (owners not related).
I hope you enjoy the five minute investment of time for the soft cream cheese here. Makes three cups. Which translates to “won’t last long”.
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Spreadable Whipped Cream Cheese (for bagels)
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Spreadable Whipped Cream Cheese
Equipment
- 1 Stand mixer with whip attachment
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Place cream cheese and heavy cream into a stand mixer fitted with a wire whip.
- Whip on high setting for five minutes, then chill.
Notes
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I love how this cream cheese is spreadable even when chilled! So easy too.
Thats easy! I have both ingredients in my fridge.
Great idea to add whipping cream to make it more spreadable.
Love this! Dear husband only uses the spreadable and it’s aggravated me to watch the price go up as well.
BAM! I always wanted to have the same consistency of the spread that we buy from bagel shops. adding a little heavy cream makes the difference. Genius! Now that we have this recipe, we will always think of you every morning.
Cream cheese and bagels are one of my fave breakfasts. Now I can whip the cream cheese and have it be spreadable and light! Yum!
Why have I never whipped my cream cheese before?! V-8 moment!