# Homemade Cream Cheese

Homemade cream cheese is an easy-to-make dish that only takes three ingredients and tastes 100 times better than store-bought cream cheese.

- Total time: 60 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 8 cups whole milk
- 8 tablespoons lemon juice

## Instructions

1. Add about 8 cups of whole milk to a pot.
2. Bring the milk to a boil over medium-low heat.
3. Once it starts boiling, turn off the heat.
4. Add 8 tablespoons of lemon juice.
5. You will slowly start seeing the cheese curds form.
6. Place a strainer over a bowl and line it with cheesecloth.
7. Pour the mixture into the cheesecloth-lined strainer to separate the curds from the milk water.
8. Squeeze the cheesecloth to remove as much milk water as possible.
9. Add the cheese curds into a blender.
10. Gradually add the milk water until you get the consistency that you like.
11. Blend until smooth.
12. Transfer the cream cheese to a container.
13. Cover the container and refrigerate for at least one hour.
14. Serve your homemade cream cheese with a bagel.

## Equipment

- pot
- stirring spoon
- strainer
- bowl
- cheesecloth
- blender
- container with lid

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1225155602795536
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/7d817f07-fce4-49da-9acf-9c80f785b4e6
- Extracted: 2025-12-20

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