Do you love cream cheese? Then start cooking with it! Here are a few tips that will see you using cream cheese in your recipes a whole lot easier.

I made the cake perfectly so that no one would be able to tell it was gluten-free. Bonnie Stern's recipe was great, and the flour substitutions were undetectable. But the cream cheese is where it got interesting.

Much to the delight of the blog team we have a new member, Genevieve. Genevieve has just started in product development for cooking products as a product evaluator. She hails from Samoa where her mother owns her own catering business and with a food science background we're expecting big things! Anyway over to Genevieve and her heirloom recipe:

Take a walk on the wild side and try something really different for dessert. Persimmon Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting or a Chocolate Orange Marble Pound Cake will surprise your family and friends.

As soon as I posted this recipe on my vintage web site I started getting messages from readers about how they had enjoyed this pie years ago and couldn't find the recipe. I wanted to share it with readers now in case they want to make this pie for any of their holiday celebrations. Maybe this recipe will take you back in time, too.