Cream Cheese

Recipe: Carrot cake ice cream

2013-04-26 14:30:00

� Carrot cake ice cream Total time: 1 hour, plus chilling and freezing time -------------------- Our recipes, your kitchen: If you try this or any other recipe from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen, please share it with us: Click here to upload pictures of...

Test Kitchen video tip: Frosting a layer cake

2013-03-20 07:00:00

If you’ve never tackled a layer cake, the whole process can be a bit intimidating ... and it can become a bit of a mess if you don’t know what you’re doing. But assembling and frosting a layer cake is actually quite simple, so long...

It's almost Mardi Gras! Got king cake?

2013-02-08 10:00:00

Mardi Gras is next Tuesday -- got your king cake? At first sight, it may come across as, well, a little unusual. A large wreath-shaped cake bedazzled in vibrant shades of purple, green and gold — there's nothing subtle about it. It might be...

Recipe: Cranberry orange pockets

2012-12-15 00:00:00

My dad loved these cookies, and his eyes would light up every time I baked them. He was always happy to taste-test cookies and would hang around waiting for the first batch to be iced. Dad called it "quality control." — Linda Amendt (www....

Recipe: Cherry pistachio rugelach

2012-12-15 00:00:00

I used dark cherry preserves and chopped green pistachios as the filling to offer a "red/green" look for Christmas colors and have a marriage of the holidays. — Samantha Ferraro (www.littleferrarokitchen.com), Seal Beach PHOTOS: Holiday Cookie...

Holiday cookie recipe: Ronnie's raspberry crescents

2012-12-06 08:02:00

Kim Nykanen of Claremont was one of the 10 winners of last year's Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with Ronnie's raspberry crescents: "This was always my and my five siblings' favorite Christmas cookie growing up. Since the recipe only makes 24...

Holiday cookie recipe: Rugelach with three fillings

2012-12-20 08:00:00

Looking for a winning rugelach recipe? Former Test Kitchen director Donna Deane came up with these for a holiday story we ran a few years ago. And we still haven't been able to forget them.... Her recipe makes the most wonderfully flaky pastry dough,...

Holiday cookie recipe: Sour cherry rugelach

2012-11-27 08:05:00

Leah Koch of Los Angeles was one of the 10 winners of our first Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with these sour cherry rugelach: "In 2005, my mother died of ovarian cancer the day after Christmas," she wrote. "We stumbled around in a fog for a...

Holiday cookie recipe: Keeflees

2012-11-26 08:00:00

Michele Yockey of Arroyo Grande was one of the 10 winners of our first Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with these Keeflees: "This recipe has been in the family for at least 115 years," she wrote. "My grandmother came from what is now the Czech...

Creamy ranch dipping sauce

2012-09-08 00:00:00

Creamy ranch dipping sauce Total time: 25 minutes Servings: Makes about 1 quart, plus 2 to 3 hours refrigeration time 1 (8-ounce) container cream cheese, softened 1 (16-ounce container) sour cream 1 cup mayonnaise 1 tablespon minced garlic 1/4...

Culinary SOS: The Cravory's cinnamon roll cookies

2012-06-09 00:00:00

Dear SOS: The San Diego bakery the Cravory (formerly 410 Degrees) makes the most amazing cinnamon roll cookies. Any chance of getting the recipe? Many thanks! Brian Boroff San Francisco Dear Brian: These little creations, which look and taste like a...

Critic's Choice: Where to find great smoked salmon

2012-06-23 00:00:00

When I was in college, breakfast of toasted bagel, cream cheese and lox eaten with the Sunday paper spread all over the table seemed like a wonderful luxury. Later I discovered the nuances of gum-free cream cheese and the bialys and Nova from Russ &...

Liege waffles with honey-nut cream cheese, chocolate and strawberry cream cheese spreads at Wafel

2013-05-03 00:00:00

The folks at the in Pikesville concocted purple bagels and cream cheese on the weekend of the AFC championship game. They'll be back at again on Super Bowl weekend.

2013-01-20 00:00:00

Peanut butter and chocolate is a classic combination that's displayed at its finest here. The filling in this cookie, from Eleanor King of Towson, is made with peanut butter, cream cheese and honey, giving the cookie a hint of flavor of the best comfort food, a peanut butter and honey sandwich.

2012-11-28 00:00:00