Smoked Cream Cheese with Scorching Honey

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Take your cheese board to the subsequent stage with this simple and scrumptious Smoked Cream Cheese recipe. Excellent for entertaining or as a tasty snack, this recipe will certainly be a success together with your style buds with the added candy and spicy taste of sizzling honey.

We’re all the time seeking to discover enjoyable methods to raise appetizers for events and gatherings. And smoked cream cheese has a lot taste. It’s prepared in lower than 90 minutes and is a good addition to any cheese board. You possibly can alter the flavors with any toppings you want from jams to caramelized onions, candied jalapeños, toasted nuts, and all the things in between.

Components for Smoked Cream Cheese

Actual ingredient quantities are within the recipe card.

• Cream Cheese – Make certain to make use of a block of full-fat cream cheese for the perfect taste (not the whipped type). In the event you use a decrease fats model take note of the smoker’s temperature as it’s extra more likely to soften at increased temps with much less fats binding it collectively. For this recipe, we used the basic block of Philadelphia cream cheese and likewise examined utilizing the Dealer Joe’s cream cheese.
• Olive Oil – A small quantity of olive oil within the pan and on the cheese helps with a pleasant shine and permits the dry rub to bind to the cheese extra simply. We use further virgin olive oil.
• Seasoning – We use our Pork Dry Rub, with hints of sugar, kosher salt, and savory taste. You should use your favourite BBQ rub you may have in your pantry. One other enjoyable dry rub taste is our Cajun Seasoning.
• Scorching Honey – Added on the finish, the sizzling honey provides a candy taste and balances with the richness of the cream cheese.
• Topping Concepts – Thinly sliced jalapeños (recent or candied), crushed nuts (hazelnuts, almonds, pecans), jam, you identify it. The choices are limitless! In our case, we’re utilizing store-bought roasted hazelnuts.

Substitutions

This smoked cream cheese is supposed to be savory with a contact of sizzling candy taste. However you’ll be able to simply alter the flavors to a sweeter model by substituting the peppers and sizzling honey on your favourite high-quality jam. We find it irresistible with blackberry jam too instead.

• Cream Cheese – We don’t suggest whipped cream cheese, you want the brick for the cream cheese to smoke correctly. Alternatively, you are able to do this with a goat cheese log.
• Seasoning – An ideal taste profile is utilizing all the things bagel seasoning. Add some lox for a enjoyable play on the basic lox bagel.
• Toppings – In the event you don’t like spice, skip the peppers and use your favourite jam. The candy taste is unbelievable.

Preparation

After unwrapping the cream cheese, place it in a forged iron skillet or pan (or different oven-safe dish like a baking sheet). Cowl with olive oil and drizzle somewhat further within the pan.

Chef’s Notice: If utilizing a baking sheet we suggest lining it with parchment paper sprayed with oil. It’s simpler to take away the cream cheese and slide it off onto a serving dish.

Rating the highest of the cream cheese block with a pointy knife making X marks alongside one aspect. This permits the cream cheese to broaden because it smokes and makes for good presentation.

Apply your favourite BBQ rub to the highest and sides of the cream cheese. It’s now prepared for the smoker.

How To Make Smoked Cream Cheese

Preheat your smoker to not more than 225 levels Fahrenheit. We suggest utilizing a fruit wooden for a sweeter taste. We use our Massive Inexperienced Egg charcoal grill set to 225.

Place the cream cheese on the smoker and shut the lid. After 90 minutes you’ll see the cream cheese darken because it absorbs the smoky taste. It would even be good and delicate. Take away from smoker.

High with the recent honey drizzle and finely diced recent jalapeños (or candied). Serve heat together with your favourite crackers. We additionally added some crushed roasted hazelnuts. The concepts for added toppings are limitless.

Pellet Grill Tip: If utilizing a pellet grill contemplate smoking at 180 levels or your low setting, which may run 160 – 180 levels Fahrenheit.

Gasoline Grill Tip: Use a smoker field on high of your burners lined with (fruit) wooden chips. Don’t soak the wooden chips. For extra particulars learn our article on the best way to smoke with a fuel grill.

Recipe FAQs and Make Forward Ideas

What To Serve With Smoked Cream Cheese

Our first selection is crackers. Make sure they’re agency crackers so that they don’t crack when you find yourself making use of the cream cheese. You should use sturdy tortilla chips, pita chips, or pretzel bites. No matter you want.

A baguette is an alternative choice. It’s even higher in case you toast it and make crostini.

And for companion concepts on your appetizer board add our smoked almonds, some smoked mortadella slices, and roasted garlic. Add recent fruit like apple slices for a pleasant recent taste that enhances the wealthy cheese.

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About Vindulge

Mary (a licensed sommelier and recipe developer) and Sean (yard pitmaster) are co-authors of the critically acclaimed cookbook, Hearth + Wine, and have been creating content material for the IACP nominated web site Vindulge since 2009. They reside in Oregon on a farm simply outdoors Portland.

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