Caraway Cheese Spread
Caraway Cheese Spread – A simple, creamy cheese and caraway spread perfect with crisp fresh vegetables, rye chips, pita bread, and more. Seven ingredients are all it takes to make this delicious party menu option.
This is another recipe from the way-back file. It’s from way before there were food blogs. Even before there was an internet. Back when people shared recipes freely and happily without arguing over who they “belonged” to. <sigh> I just need to stop before I get started on that.
This is one of those simple, delicious recipes that are really great for any occasion. Serve it with cocktails during the football game while watching a movie, or just eat it at the kitchen counter on a Saturday afternoon because you were too busy to cook lunch. Oops…yeah, I did.
This super simple spread can be thrown together at the last minute. It’s great for entertaining guests, and different from the typical cheese dip.
🥄 How I Make Caraway Cheese Spread
Making this lovely cheese spread just couldn’t be easier. All you’ll need is some room temperature cream cheese, a little butter, some chopped green onion, garlic salt, caraway seed, capers, and a tiny bit of mustard.
Put all the ingredients in a bowl (or use a mixer if you like) and stir them together until they’re well blended. Serve with an assortment of crackers, fresh vegetables, or chips.
❗ Expert Tips
Cream Cheese — It’s important to use softened cream cheese in this recipe in order to get a nice, creamy mixture. To soften cream cheese, let it sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
Green Onion — Substitute chopped fresh chives if you like.
Caraway Seeds — The amount can be adjusted according to your taste. Try starting with the recommended amount and adding more or less to either strengthen or lessen the flavor.
🍚 How I Store Leftovers
The spread should be refrigerated until ready to serve. Allow it to sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes for the best spreading consistency.
Freezing is not recommended.
❓ Questions About Caraway Cheese Spread
Caraway seeds have a mild licorice or anise flavor. They’re sometimes described as having a sharp nutty, citrus flavor.
Capers are the flower buds from a caper bush. The buds are picked and then dried and brined in salt. Capers are often used in chicken and fish recipes.
It’s up to you whether or not to rinse the capers. Taste first and if you think they’re too salty give them a quick rinse in a strainer. Then proceed with your recipe.
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Caraway Cheese Spread
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- ¼ cup butter room temperature
- 1 ½ tablespoons chopped green onion
- ½ teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons caraway seed
- 1 teaspoon capers
- 1 teaspoon prepared mustard
Instructions
- Cream all ingredients together.
- Serve with assorted crackers or rye toasts.
Notes
- It’s important to use softened cream cheese in this recipe in order to get a nice, creamy mixture. To soften cream cheese, let it sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
- The amount of caraway seeds may be adjusted according to your taste. Try starting with the recommended amount and adding more or less to either strengthen or lessen the flavor.
- It’s up to you whether or not to rinse the capers. Taste first and if you think they’re too salty give them a quick rinse in a strainer. Then proceed with your recipe.
Freezing is not recommended.
Nutrition Information
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Delicious, easy and a big hit at my coctail party.
So glad your guests enjoyed it!
Love finding your site with mention of old recipes. Being a child of the 60’s myself I can relate to those oldies, before internet, etc. I have been digging through old recipes and have found some old ones that I have revisited in the kitchen. ~~ True comfort food
Thanks so much, Di! I really enjoy keeping the vintage recipes alive.
Love this recipe. Just returned from Netherland and brought back some yummy Komijnen kaas….so, here I am and jotting down your recipe to have this week….looks so easy but I know it will be tasty….thank you….
Judy will be happy you credited her with the recipe ;) *sigh is right – I’m all for showing proper credit, of course, but sometimes things go overboard.
sorry to hear about your classmate – I graduated high school and college 2 decades later, and it has happened to our class as well – never an easy thing and definitely brings perspective.
I was a child in the 70s, and remember the foods, especially “entertaining foods” my mom would serve at her bunco parties – this looks like it would fit right in! this will be a part of the holidays here this year!
This recipe was something we served often at parties in the 80’s. It’s still just as good today, too.
This would be a great way to use the back load of caraway seeds I have….simple and easy for when people are coming over.
I have really come to enjoy the flavor that caraway seeds impart. I will have to try this dip just for that (and the cream cheese)! (:
Some recipes never go out of style!! This is one!
Lana it was so nice of you to mention Scott. He probably would have gotten a kick out of it. I remember him as such a sweet funny guy! Food plays such a big part in our lives and represents a lot of good memories. Time with friends, holiday fun or cherished family recipes. It’s how we remember things and people sometimes. Thank you for sharing as you do with such wonderful stories and good food ideas!
I still love the oldies, in every way. Food, music, hair….. really big hair.
Scott so marched to his own drummer that he was a one man rhythm section. That was what was so endearing about him. I think we all envied his ability to not give two hoots about what everybody thought. I was sorry to learn of his passing.
Raise a cracker with dip in his memory, and in honor of times well spent.
Miss P
Hey Lana! I just happened to catch you in my reading list again today! :)
I got married at the ripe age of 19 back in the 70s because back then, being a housewife was what we gals did, and wanted to do! So many of my recipes come from back in the late 70s too & mostly from popular community cookbooks back then. I don’t remember this one specifically but I could certainly go for it – looks like my kind of spread!
I had my 30 year class reunion a few years ago & was shocked at how many classmates had passed away. We’ve lost a few more since too. Very sad & eye opening too.
Hi Mary! Yes, I have so many old recipes that were popular back in the late 70’s and the 80’s. And, do you know what? They’re all still just as good now as they were back then. I love making the ones have been passed down like this.
By the way, I really wanted to comment on your apple enchiladas post, but dangit you’ve still got us WordPress folks blocked out. Anyway – they looked really delicious! Love that recipe.
Yeah, sorry about that! I actually just turned off the anonymous comments earlier this week because I was tired of sorting through those aggravating spammers!! The filter catches them, but I still have to read through and delete them, ugh! That apple enchilada is the perfect example of one of those oldies too by the way.
This sounds great and simple to make. I’m going to make it this weekend.
Hope you enjoy it! It’s even better the second day after it sits in the fridge overnight.