Cream Cheese Powder

So when I make a carrot cake or a batch of cupcakes, I do like having a better icing than just powderd sugar. This powdered cream cheese with a bit of confectioner's sugar mixed in (and any flavoring drops I have on hand that would taste good) with filtered water - that is some really good icing! And the best part is that it is self-stable so I can use it over time and it will remain the same. Not a prepper, though I understand why survival types like this - no refrigeration, just need some water and you have a spread for fresh made bagels or like me, a delicious icing! I think this is my 3rd time buying it? It's so good!

I bought this as an experiment to add to my morning pumpkin purée instead of having to leave out some regular cream cheese to soften. It worked wonderfully. 2 tablespoons of the powder took in lots of the moisture from the purée creating a wonderful creamy thick texture. This along with some spices makes a wonderful “lazy” pumpkin pie treat. Also worked well as a thickener for sauces in savory dishes. I took a gamble buying the 2lb option instead of the single pound but the difference in price was so negligible it would have been a waste in cost effectiveness if it worked out… which it did! I definitely recommend this cream cheese powder and will be using it on the daily. Mixes extremely well in everything I have tried so far and can be a huge time saver when it comes to softening cream cheese.

I use this product in my coffee. 2 tsp. Takes the bite out of the coffee and for under a carb. I honestly like it as a coffee creamer. IF YOU JUST STARTED A LOW/NO CARB DIET.. this will not taste exactly like cream cheese. It's close enough for me though. Definitely adds cream cheese taste to my coffee.

I bought this powder because it's hard to use a block of chream cheese before it spoils. This is definitely not something to use on a bagel. It's quite fake tasting straight but if you put it in a recipe that calls for cream cheese, I think it will work perfectly. I used it for stuffed french bread french toast and it tasted ok. A block of cream cheese is without a doubt better tasting but this is passable

Hoosier Hill Farms makes all sorts of powdered dairy products. We have used most of them. Everything is less expensive if you get it from your grocer's dairy case. But not a lot less expensive if you don't catch a special. We started getting HHF stuff as emergency stock. A little dairy goes a long way when you simply can not buy any. What I found is that having cream cheese, or sour cream, or butter, or whatever on hand ALWAYS has saved me innumerable runs to a store. The alternative, making something...else... with the ingredients can work sometimes. Never finding that the other half of the sour cream or milk is unusable is a savings too. Realistically, in my house, with 3 people with bizarre schedules, the odds that that 8 oz block of cream cheese gets used up before it gets nasty are not that good. So if you have a plan and you know that you will use it up, get fresh. And if planning is challenging, but you still like to eat at home, have a supply of dairy on the shelf. You will use it in the years before it shows age. If you bake, or if you make up your own back-pack meals, you may use it surprisingly quickly.

Ok. So I've used this twice for my cream cheese frosting and here's how I think it's best used... This is a fantastic aid to your cream cheese frosting. If you use it with just butter and powdered sugar, there isn't much of a cream cheese flavour at all... trust me... I used one and a half cups of this with two sticks of butter and idk what that flavour was... but it wasn't cream cheese. If you're like me and live in a country where the cream cheese has a high water content (your cream cheese frosting becomes runny), then add this "powdered cream cheese" to your recipie. You'll have a more firm and more pipeable frosting! Yes there is a sort of texture or powdered feel to the frosting but it isn't as promenant as you may think... and yes I use a lot in my recipie. But my frosing sort of stays put... no fancy piping but smooth simplicity without the runny mess! My recipie? 8oz cream cheese 3/4 cup - 1 cup butter... I like 3/4 4 cups powdered sugar (yes you need all. Don't skimp. It helps with the "hold") 1 1/2 cups cream cheese powder 1 1/2 tsps. vanilla extract 1/2 tsp. lemon extract Beat the butter first till smooth. Beat in cream cheese well. Add the cream cheese powder (no need to sift as it's super fine and clump free). Beat for one minute. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time and extracts. Beat on high 2-3 mins. Tip: Make your frostings (this and all others) the day before and store in the fridge. The flavours marry so much better. Take out and bring to room temp before use. You may beat it for one minute again to re-fluff. Yes I am re-purchasing!

Does not taste like cream cheese, tastes like powdered milk. No matter what I mixed it into. It only has two ingredients, cream cheese and milk powder, but i only taste the milk powder. Seems most reviewers are split, and i hypothesize that it's people who know what powdered milk tastes like vs those who don't. If you go looking for one-ingredient powdered cream cheese it's going to be more expensive than just buying cream cheese, just so you know. Alas.

If you don't know what you're doing you're going to have something bad to say about this powder. I'm not a chef or a professional cook. Heck I'm not much of a baker so when I saw this I thought how bad could I do if I try to use this? I purchased a trio: cream cheese powder, sour cream powder, and heavy cream powder. I don't know why I purchased these but I thought they would come in handy should I come across a recipe that cause for these since I don't regularly keep these in my fridge. It's either that or I always end up letting these products go to waste. I used the cream cheese and sour cream powder to make mini cheesecake pies. I remember purchasing those little graham cracker pie crust from Walmart and forgot I had them. When I was mixing the cream cheese powder I had to taste for myself to see if it did in fact taste like the cheese for macaroni. Sure enough it did and I was like uh-oh. That really didn't deter me from using this though. With a tablespoon of vanilla extract, sugar, and sour cream powder this cheesecake came out great. Not only that it really thickened up while it was in the freezer. I didn't mix this with water like the ingredients said. I just used the box of milk I purchased from my local dollar tree store because I don't keep milk on hand either. When I saw that the cheesecake came out great I went to do a key lime and chocolate cheesecake. For the key lime I did vanilla extract, sugar, True Lime and lime juice with a few tablespoons of sour cream powder and they came out great!! The sad part is that I went through a lot of cream cheese powder and need to get more of this. As I said before from a non-baker like me if you don't know what you're doing this won't come out right and mines came out great.

I had high hopes because of the reviews. But it tastes sooo artificial. Not even close to how cream cheese tastes like.

The delivery of the product was in excellent time. The product was better than expected, taste and consistency was great. I would recommend this to anyone lookin to add flavouring to their meals.

Arrived very quickly, looks as described. I have not tried the product yet.

I find it a little flat in the taste and texture departments.. I will use it in baking where the ingredients are cream cheese based but as a spread on its own, I don't prefer it to packaged cream cheese. It will be handy for camping though.

great flavor and easy to use