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  • Neither of us could tell the difference between vanilla, chocolate, and red-velvet cake, which to be fair never tastes like anything — it has a bit of cocoa and a lot of food coloring, and seems to be popular for its usual cream-cheese icing.

    Not So Guilty Pleasure 2009

  • [ETA: and a cream-cheese/smoked pie layered with pita bread.]

    Happy Pi Day! nobodyhere 2009

  • And just for giggles, I baked up the cream-cheese version found in the "A World of Cake" cookbook by Krystina Castella.

    How to secure a last-minute king cake 2011

  • Prescribed by their creator, the "Chocodoctor" (aka Ed Engoron), these handmade bonbons come in flavors like Almond Coconut Flake (plumped with almond butter and coconut; covered in dark chocolate) and Carrot-Cream Cheese (inside, carrot cake ganache and sour cream-cheese cake; outside, dark chocolate).

    The (Trick or) Treats 2011

  • Neither of us could tell the difference between vanilla, chocolate, and red-velvet cake, which to be fair never tastes like anything — it has a bit of cocoa and a lot of food coloring, and seems to be popular for its usual cream-cheese icing.

    Not So Guilty Pleasure 2009

  • This fall they're introducing three newbies, all laced with cream-cheese icing: milk-chocolate-dipped Salted Peanut Butter, graham-crackery dark-chocolate S'mores and spiced white-chocolate-covered Gingerbread.

    News You Can Eat Charlotte Druckman 2011

  • The un-iced chocolate cream-cheese muffin has 440.

    Not So Guilty Pleasure 2009

  • The un-iced chocolate cream-cheese muffin has 440.

    Not So Guilty Pleasure 2009

  • Let's pretend for one moment that we don't want cake: white cake, yellow cake, red velvet cake, cake with carob or chips, cake in cups, cake in to-go boxes with cream-cheese frosting licked or saved on these hard edges of cardboard.

    The August Heartbreak Suite of Sorrow's Poems 2010

  • Like the names of restaurant dishes here — "Creole cream-cheese cannoli with pistachios and satsuma sorbet" — the costumed performance feels like a seduction.

    New Orleans Done Over, Done Right Nancy deWolf Smith 2010

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