This post is sponsored by Arla. All comments and opinions are my own.

Cream cheese is a pretty typical ingredient found in most of our kitchens. At my house it’s a standard for bagels—but I don’t stop there. I use cream cheese in tons of different recipes. Believe it or not, most of those recipes aren’t even breakfast recipes!

Now I am picky about what I serve up to my guys. I prefer to keep the foods as simple as possible. Luckily the folks at Arla feel the same way. All their products are crafted with quality, natural ingredients in an environmentally-friendly way. Plus, their products have no artificial additives and are made with ingredients you can actually recognize. So when it comes time to stock my fridge with my favorite cream cheese spreads, I go for Arla Cream Cheese!

Besides offering so many tasty varieties, their cream cheese has no synthetic hormones*. That’s important to me with two growing boys at my house. When I am picking my cream cheese the only thing I want to get is great flavor.

Now I pick up the tubs for my recipes and general usage but the big thing here at my house is the new squeeze tubes. Yep, Arla has easy to use tubes that allow you to squeeze out tasty cream cheese on bagels, fruit, toast, crackers or whatever you love!

My boys have been using the tubes on everything…including just squeezing the cream cheese on their fingers. I have even caught them squeezing it directly into their mouths! Never a dull moment with boys in the house!

Jake’s favorite snack is vanilla wafers with a dollop of strawberry cream cheese that’s topped with a banana slice. It’s a quick and easy snack that takes almost no effort at all.

When I need a tasty snack that will feed everyone, I whip up this Easy Fruit Tart. It’s super simple to make and is usually gone in a flash. You only need a few ingredients to have a tasty snack with big flavor.

Stop by Publix and pick up delicious cream cheese with no synthetic hormones* and no artificial ingredients…just great taste!

 

Easy Fruit Tart
Author: Michelle
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Ingredients
  • Refrigerated pie crust
  • 7 oz Arla Strawberry Cream Cheese Spread
  • 1/4 cup of sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  • strawberries, sliced
  • blueberries
  • kiwi, sliced
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400ºF.
  2. Unroll and fit the pie crust into a tart pan, removing any excess crust
  3. Place foil over the crust and fill the bottom with dried beans, uncooked rice or pie weights and bake for 12 – 15 minutes (until the shell is golden brown).
  4. Remove from oven and discard weights and foil.
  5. Allow to cool completely.
  6. Mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and lemon juice until smooth and creamy – about 3 minutes.
  7. Spread into the cooled crust.
  8. Top with fruit and serve.

*Arla does not use synthetic hormones in the production of its milk. FDA has determined that there is no significant difference between milk derived from rBST-treated and non-rBST treated cows.