This cream cheese is amazing! Seriously, it is so creamy and sweet and delicious. You will love it! Of course you have to have it on a GOOD bagel - none of that packaged stuff from the grocery store. A bakery bagel would be great or you can try homemade bagels which are pure heaven. Making bagels might seem intimidating, but they are actually quite easy and foolproof! Believe me - they are. Try this recipe here. In a nutshell, to make a bagel: 1) mix dough 2) let dough rise 3) form dough into bagel shapes 4) boil bagels for 30 seconds 5) Bake bagels. :) Try it!
I regress. Anyway, back to the cream cheese. You need to make the Strawberry Syrup that I posted last Saturday for this recipe. It usually makes 2 cups or so of syrup, so if you don't particularly want strawberry syrup but you do want strawberry cream cheese, I cut the syrup recipe into thirds for you and posted it below. It will make *roughly* 2/3 cups of syrup. So if you don't want any syrup leftovers, mix 1/2 cup of it with two bars of cream cheese. If there is only a little syrup left over, just add it in. It will be a little more strawberry tasting, which is fine. If you have another quarter cup left over, you can add another bar of cream cheese... and you'll have lots of strawberry cream cheese. :) Or you can just make pancakes sometime for the leftover syrup. You get to choose. :)
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Strawberry Cream Cheese
Submitted by Erin ~ The Sisters Cafe
1/4 cup strawberry syrup (recipe below)
1 8-oz package regular cream cheese (NOT Neufchatel cheese or less-fat cream cheese), softened
For strawberry cream cheese, mix cream cheese and 1/4 cup of strawberry syrup until smooth and creamy. Serve on warm bagels.
For strawberry cream cheese, mix cream cheese and 1/4 cup of strawberry syrup until smooth and creamy. Serve on warm bagels.
smaller version of Strawberry Syrup recipe:
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp cornstarch
dash cinnamon
2/3 cup thinly sliced fresh strawberries, roughly chopped
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For strawberry syrup, combine sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon in saucepan - stir in strawberries. Bring to a boil over medium heat - cook and stir for 2 minutes or until slightly thickened. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Makes approximately 2/3 cups.
Original recipe for Strawberry Syrup is here. (It is easy to half, which would make 1 cup of syrup. The recipe above is 1/3 of the original recipe.)
Yum! I was just wondering if I should make some strawberry cream cheese to have with my bagels, but I didn't have a recipe. Sounds really good. Just too bad you can't use fat-free cream cheese.
ReplyDeleteYum! I can't wait to try both of these. My kids love strawberry cream cheese.
ReplyDeleteyum Erin! Love strawberry cream cheese - can't wait to make my own!
ReplyDeleteYum! Yum! I tried to make your syrup on Sunday and realized I was out of sugar... what?! I can't even remember the last time I was out of sugar. Now I will definitely have to get the sugar and make the syrup so I can enjoy it on my waffles and in that delicious looking cream cheese. Thanks, sis!
ReplyDeleteI love bagels and strawberries and cream cheese. What a combo this will be. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJust wondering why you can't use Neufchatel cheese instead of regular for this. I almost never buy regular and don't usually see a difference.
ReplyDeleteThis strawberry cream cheese (and the syrup) look fantastic! They are the perfect way to use the last of my strawberries in the fridge.
Hi AJ! Good question - I specifically said not to use Neufchatel cream cheese because I found that it did not whip up uniformly with the syrup. What's more, Neufchatel's flavor doesn't hold a candle to the real stuff. You wouldn't notice the difference in baking, consequently I exclusively bake with Neufchatel. However, I can tell a huge difference between the two types of cream cheese when I am tasting it on it's own. So I bake with the low fat stuff and when it's time to enjoy it in all it's glory atop a bagel, I use the real stuff.
ReplyDeleteIn a nutshell, I tried this recipe with Neufchatel once and it didn't combine well with the strawberry syrup, nor did it taste good. Real cream cheese, on the other hand, was DIVINE. :)
this cream cheese is so delicious!!! thank you for sharing!!!
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