Cream Cheese

These savory rugelach are made with a cream-cheese-based dough, which softens very quickly. If the dough becomes tricky to work with, chill it until firm, then continue with the recipe.

A perfect accompaniment for cocktails. Most of the prep work here can be done ahead.

Root vegetables were often used to lend sweetness to eighteenth-century cakes and puddings. The carrot cake layers in this recipe are sandwiched with marmalade and iced with a cream cheese frosting.

Make the cake a day ahead so that it has plenty of time to chill.

Mashed banana gives this dessert extra moistness.

The hors d¸oeuvres may be made 1-1/2 hours in advance and kept covered loosely and chilled.

A super-creamy dessert that will have cheesecake lovers begging for seconds.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time.

This dip is especially attractive served in a hollowed-out head of Castelfranco radicchio, a white radicchio with loose, pink-streaked leaves that readily open to form a bowl.