Cream Cheese

Cream cheese is a soft, mild-tasting cheese with a high fat content. Traditionally, it is made from un-skimmed milk enriched with additional cream.
Cream cheese is often spread on bread, bagels, crackers, etc., & used as a dip for potato chips and similar snack items, & in salads. It can be mixed with other ingredients to make spreads, such as yogurt-cream spread, can be used to make cheesecake & to thicken sauces and make them creamy. It is sometimes used in place of or with butter when making cakes or cookies, & cream cheese frosting.
Cream cheese is easy to make at home, and many methods and recipes are used. Here I am giving the recipe I use for making cream cheese at home.

Ingredients
1 cup cottage cheese (homemade)
1 tsp curds or cream

Method
Take the water out from cottage cheese completely by hanging it for an hour.
Churn cottage cheese & cream in a mixer and your home made cream cheese is ready.

Tips
* Cottage cheese should be completely without water & it should be fresh.
* I made my cottage cheese using curds but if you are making it using lemon, then wash it before squeezing the extra water as we don't want that lemony taste in our cream cheese.
* I always use homemade cream cheese for all my preparations.