3/4 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons butter
1.5 tsp vanilla extract
Sweetener to taste. (I used a squeeze of liquid sucralose, Splenda)
Mix with immersion blender till smooth. Add fresh blackberries or raspberries. This is VERY rich. Makes two servings.
I think that I will try this tonight. I love these simple recipes - yes, so even I can make them, but also in the hopes of getting my kids to try them sometime.
Do you use regular cream cheese or should it be the spreadable variety?
I don’t want to use artificial sweeteners (if I can help it). Any suggestions, e.g. more berries?
I used regular cream cheese. The brick. As far as sweetener? If a natural sweetener like stevia is also a no go, you may like this with no sweetener. Try it. Or blend in berries, though they aren’t very sweet.
My goodness, did you search for hours for perfect blackberries?! They are beautiful!
They always look like that around here. Most are grown in California and shipped here to Minnesota.
Where do you live?
I do something similar, but don’t measure. A brick or tub of cream cheese, softened. About 1/2 that amount of 18% sour cream or creme fraiche. Sometimes some melted butter. Sweetener of choice (1 - 2 tbsp of swerve for me), a capful of vanilla. Maybe some heavy whipping cream if it’s too thick, all beaten together with a hand mixer. Great as is, or with a few berries.
I’m surprised that my immersion blender works on cream cheese. This turned out great. It tasted terrific when I licked a spoon. I’m out getting berries. I’ve not sweetened it. I will definitely make this again to put on a steak!
It’s secretly cream cheese frosting.
Shhhhhhh, don’t tell anyone.
I’ve used those same ingredients minus the heavy cream, and scooped them out with a small cookie scoop (like an ice cream scoop, but smaller than the size of a melon ball), and froze them. Great little fat bombs. Second batch used almond extract and vanilla. Yummo.
Last night I added 4 raw egg yolks. Because nutrients, creamier, & protein.
Plus. I tend to live dangerously.
It was decadent btw. Kind of like cheesy dessert hollandaise.
