Stupid qtn: If a recipe asks for cream cheese....

[JonahB]

...where on earth do i buy it from? I have never seen "cream cheese" in Tesco's or Sainsbury's. The only place I have ever seen cream cheese in in specialist delis. Does it mean I can use something like Philadelphia? If not, where do you buy yours from? Any ideas/tips? Thanks.

Philadelphia is cream cheese, Tesco's definitely sell their own brand of cream cheese as I'm sure all supermarkets would

I just use Philadelphia.

philadeliphia is fine but needs to be full lard version

Yes, cream cheese is Philidelphia and similar. I've had Sainsburys and Tesco own brand in the last few weeks.

Great. Thanks. I knew I was being particularly stupid, but I've always been put off making any cheese cakes because of this.
The reason I finally got round to asking is that wanted to ask is because i've been lent the Hummingbird cookbook (I want to make every single recipe) and it has a recipe for a cream cheese frosting, which looked too good not to try.

Full lard? Okay. Got it.

philly/own brand will definitely do, but proper cream cheese from a deli is better for icing though. philly doesn't set as well.

Ooh I have that cook book, the black bottom cup cakes are amazing! And cream cheese frosting is better than normal icing imo

Thanks TragicallyHip, I can see myself buying my own copy v v soon. I've just made the spinach and cheese savoury muffins this evening. I've eaten 3 and my DS(2) wolfed his 2 down...... I'm planning the more sugary offerings next.....

oooh I made the black bottom cup cakes today, and my cheesecake mix in it went a bit wrong - now think it was because I could just not bear to put any more saturated fat in there and used half fat?