How to Make Cream Cheese With Soft Cheese

Cream Cheese Recipe

Cream Cheese, whenever you look at any recipes for cheesecake, the main ingredient would be cream cheese. Actually i have never seen them or used them as well. Because i could never get my hands on them in my place. Hence i created some of new recipes for cheesecakes and cream cheese frosting without cream cheese.

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But as a food blogger, i just want to try my hands on the authentic cheesecake using that cream cheese. So i decided to make my own cream cheese and use them in that. Believe it or not, making cream cheese at home is not rocket science, it is very very easy. You just need couple of ingredients, milk and yogurt and few hours. I have heard that cream cheese are pretty expensive, but my recipe for cream cheese is very very cheap and it makes a pretty good cream cheese as well.

I used this cream cheese to make a cucumber cream cheese sandwich, macarpone cheesecake and i have saved some to make baked chocolate peanut butter cheesecake as well. Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

How To Make Homemade Cream Cheese Easily At Home [Steps]

Homemade Cream Cheese Recipe / How to Make Cream Cheese at Home

Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 10 mins

Total Time 25 mins

Course Homemade

Cuisine American

▢ Full Fat Milk - 2 liter
▢ Yogurt / Curd - 3 tblspn or more as needed
▢ For Making Cream Cheese: Paneer - 250 grams and Yogurt / Curd - ½ cup

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For making paneer, bring milk to a boil, once it reaches boil, add in curd and keep mixing, it will start to curdle, if it didn't curdle add in more yogurt.
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Now place a sieve over a bowl, line it with clean cheesecloth or white cloth.
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Pour the curdled mix over the sieve and once it is poured in, tie it like a bundle, and place a heavy thing over it. Press it often to remove the water as much as possible. I left it for 30 mins and i got a beautiful block of paneer.
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Cube it out and paneer is done.
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The whey water which you got is very nutritious, use that for kneading chapati dough or making rasam.
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Now lets make cream cheese, take paneer in a blender and make it into a smooth puree.
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Add in curd and puree it again till it is very smooth.
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Line a sieve with cheesecloth and pour the mix in it.
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Leave it in fridge overnight and upto 48 hours, discard water that is collected in the bowl inbetween.
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What you will be left with is a beautiful creamy cream cheese.
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You can use this in any recipes that calls for cream cheese.

You can use store bought paneer as well for this recipe, but homemade is best.

You can use this any recipes that calls for cream cheese, even in baked cheese cake recipes.

I left the cream cheese drain overnight and didn't get much liquid in the bowl, i got a thick cheese. But if you find lots of water in the bowl leave it to drain for 24 hours to 48 hours.

Store this cream cheese in a air tight container and use within a week, maximum 10 days.

For making paneer, you can use lemon juice or vinegar as well. If you use lemon juice or vinegar, adter draining the mix show them under running tap water to remove the excess sourness from the paneer.

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Cream Cheese Recipe Pictures

First lets start by making paneer for cream cheese..
You will need full fat milk and some yogurt/ curd

Take milk in a sauce pan and bring it to boil

now it has started to boil

add in yogurt

you will see the milk will start to curdle, if it didn't
curdle add more yogurt

Look how the milk has curdled

Now it has completely curdled

U will see greenish whey separating from the mix

Place a sieve over a large bowl

line the sieve with some cheesecloth or clean white kitchen towel

pour the mix in

gently remove it, tie it like a biundle

this is whey water, which is very very nutritious. You can use this to knead your chapati dough or make rasam using this..Please dont throw it away

Now place a heavy weight over the packed milk solid

After leaving it for 30 mins. This is what i got,
a beautiful block of paneer / indian cottage cheese

Cube it out

Use this fresh paneer in your curries..

But we are gonna use it to make cream cheese..
You need paneer and again some curd for this

take paneer in a mixer

Grind it to a smooth paste

Add in curd

grind it to a smooth paste

Again place a sieve over a bowl

line it with cheese cloth and pour the mix in this

cover it up nicely

put it in fridge overnight or upto 2 days..Discard the water collected in the bowl often

This is what you end up with..I got only few
tblspn of water from this mix, i left it overnight
and my cream cheese was in the right consistency

You can use this in your recipes

This is really a awesome recipe for those who cannot
find cream cheese in your places, LIKE ME..

Look at the creamy cheesecake made using this cream cheese..Totally divine, next recipe is going to be this.

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I've been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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