You'll Want to Make These Luscious Cream Cheese Desserts Right Now

This knockout dessert combines a delicately flavored cream cheese and pumpkin filling with a deliciously intense chocolate crust. Serve it as is, or pour a stove-top chocolate-caramel glaze on top for a glossy, glamorous finish.

A single-layer confection meant to be sliced into any time of day, the snacking cake is one to add to your repertoire. Here, lemon juice and zest brighten the batter, and ground freeze-dried raspberries give classic cream-cheese frosting a natural rosy tint. Pile on whole berries, then help yourself.

Here's an updated version on the classic peanut-butter sandwich cookie, starring almond butter and toasted almonds. The filling includes cream cheese, honey, and vanilla.

Simmered dried apricots with a hint of vanilla are a perfect combination of tart and sweet. You slather this mixture on rounds of cream-cheese dough, and then slice it into wedges, roll it into crescents, and bake for a delicious cookie.

This rustic cake is infused with the tastes of honey, lemon, and a hint of ground cardamom, almost like a flavorful cup of tea. And the filling is a satiny-smooth cross between lemon curd and cream-cheese frosting.

Although berry shortcakes are usually served with whipped cream, this cream cheese version is a pleasant departure. Tangier, thicker, and all around delicious.

A cross between a sour cherry pie and a cheese Danish, these flaky pastries are easier to make than you might think, calling for frozen (and thawed) puff pastry. The cream cheese provides a nice counterpoint to the sweet fruit.

How'd we get this cheesecake so smooth? It's a one-two-three combo that includes creamy peanut butter, room-temperature eggs, and cream cheese.

You can't not love this no-bake take on cheesecake, as it's easier than a traditional one and in tart form. The cream-cheese filling floats on a crisp and buttery press-in crust. Top it with fruit and serve.

Cutting into this beautiful Bundt reveals its rich cheesecake-like chocolate filling, and the whole thing is glazed with a sumptuous chocolate ganache.

With cocoa powder, butter, sugar, eggs, and sour cream, this red velvet cake has an almost fudgy flavor. Swoops of tangy cream-cheese frosting offset the richness (and give it a nice contrast in hue).

Though unfrosted, these chocolate cupcakes with a marble-topped cream cheese filling aren't lacking in flavor or appearance. Consider them the perfect to-go cupcakes, as there's no frosting to muss.