Cream Cheese Syrup

Name: Cream Cheese Syrup Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 Cups Sugar; 1 Cup Butter; 1 Cup Buttermilk; 8 oz Cream Cheese, softened; 1 tsp Baking Soda; 1 tsp Vanilla

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What better to drizzle over pumpkin pancakes, carrot cake pancakes or even red velvet pancakes with than a syrup that tastes like cheesecake! This easy recipe has few ingredients and is ready in 15 minutes!

A syrup bottle filled with warm cream cheese syrup. — Warm bottle of this sweet cream cheese syrup!

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Why You'll Love This Recipe
Ingredient Notes
How to Make Step by Step Instructions
Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips
Pancake Recipes to go with this Syrup!
Cream Cheese Syrup Recipe

Why You'll Love This Recipe

Tastes like Cheesecake!!! Like a sweet treat for your breakfast or brunch recipes!
Delicious on those fluffy golden brown pancakes and waffles too!
Ready in 15 minutes!
This syrup recipe contains no corn syrup!

Ingredient Notes

Butter - both salted butter and unsalted butter work!
Vanilla Extract - No need to use clear vanilla, regular vanilla doesn't change the color of the syrup noticeably.
Cream Cheese - You can use regular or reduced fat cream cheese.

Ingredients to make Cream Cheese Syrup. — Everything you'll need to make this delicious syrup!

How to Make Step by Step Instructions

It's very helpful for the cream cheese to be at room temperature for this recipe.
Over medium-high heat melt the butter in a medium saucepan (a small saucepan may boil over)
Add the sugar and buttermilk.
Bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute.

Butter, sugar and buttermilk added to a pot and brought to a boil. — Melt the butter and sugar, add buttermilk and bring to a boil.

Place the cream cheese in a deep medium bowl or 4 cup measuring cup.
Beat the hot syrup into the cream cheese with an electric mixer or hand beaters at a medium speed until completely smooth.
Pour back into the pot.

Cream cheese in a deep bowl having the hot syrup beat into it until smooth then poured back in the pot. — Beat hot syrup into the cream cheese.

Whisk in the vanilla and the baking soda.
The syrup will foam up quite a bit and be very fluffy!
Serve over your favorite pancakes.

Add the vanilla and the baking soda. to create a super fluffy syrup! — Add vanilla and baking soda.

Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips

How should I store this syrup?

Store in the fridge for up to a week.

How do I reheat this syrup?

Reheat little bits at a time in a microwave-safe bowl in the microwave stirring in between to redistribute the ingredients. Reheated syrup won't be fluffy again but tastes just as amazing.

Should it separate in the fridge?

Yes, this syrup will naturally separate in the fridge as it will also become quite solid and thick. Just stir it back together when you reheat it.

Pancake Recipes to go with this Syrup!

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