Name: Cream Cheese Arepas Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Latin American
Ingredients: ¾ cup milk; ¼ cup cream cheese; ½ tsp salt; 1 tsp white sugar; 1 cup arepas flour; ½ tsp Vegetable Oil

How To Make Cream Cheese Arepas

Start your day with this Columbian cornmeal cake that is Cream Cheese Arepas! Rich and delicious, arepas can be served with any of your favorite fillings.

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 10 minutes

Total: 25 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

¾cupmilk,at room temperature
¼cupcream cheese,at room temperature
½tspsalt
1tspwhite sugar
1cuparepas flour,such as P.A.N.®
½tspvegetable oil,or as needed

Instructions

Mix milk, cream cheese, and salt in a mixing bowl; whisk together until smooth and foamy.
Add sugar and arepas flour to milk mixture; mix with a spatula for about 1 minute until the dough is soft, thick, and workable.
Divide dough into 4 portions (for the 4 wells in the maker). Form each quarter into a ball and use wet hands to gently shape it into a thick patty about ½-inch thick. If there are little cracks on the outside, the dough may be a little too dry; add more milk.
Heat arepas maker; lightly coat wells of the arepas machine with vegetable oil.
Place patties into wells of the maker, close lid, and let cook through one cooking cycle of machine for about 5 minutes. For a crisper crust, flip arepas, using a wooden spoon or spatula, and repeat cooking cycle for about 5 minutes. Patties will be crusty and browned on both sides and the insides will be cooked all the way through.