Kite Hill Cream Cheese is another brand of vegan alternative cream cheese, like my previously reviewed Tofutti cream cheese. The base for Kite Hill’s vegan cream ‘cheese’ is almond milk rather than tofu as with Tofutti. Almond milk is light—in calories and body. This almond milk based cream cheese is no exception to that.

This stuff is so light-bodied. Like…the texture is insane. The Kite Hill Almond Milk Cream Cheese spreads so easily and gracefully. I had no issue applying it to my bagels. I was so surprised at how smooth it was to spread. It really looks and feels the part of cream cheese, though, in my mind, I’ve been comparing it more with frosting. It has a more ‘moist’ quality to it that works well to counter dry breads too…as in, you want to dip the dry edges into it so everything you eat is covered with this nice, luscious spread.

Now…for the taste. Texture is a big part of cream cheese, but it has to taste good too.

So the variety of the Kite Hill Cream Cheese alternative line I tried was just the plain version as that’s the way I like my cream cheese. And I did like this plain vegan cream cheese. The taste was definitely sweeter/tangy than I had expected. It really had the more intense tangy flavor character of cream cheese, even more so than Tofutti had. Its flavor texture was on the coarser side, sort of chalky (it had…some grit). It was a little sweet, but the tang was what really stayed with me. It was more muted when spread onto a bagel with strong flavor of its own, say pumpernickel, but it still came through a bit.

So…I would say that the Kite Hill Almond Milk based Cream Cheese is an excellent imitation of cream cheese. Light, tangy, smooth, and yet, actually creamy. A great vegan alternative to cream cheese that I enthusiastically recommend for that purpose and more.

Now…you may ask, do I prefer this to Tofutti? Hmm. It is hard to decide, despite the fact they are easily comparable: they are both vegan cream cheeses. And yet…they are very different. Tofutti is smoother in flavor and firmer, while Kite Hill has a very light/smooth texture and sharper flavor. They are sort of opposites that both excel in this category. I think I’d go with Tofutti over Kite Hill, but I am enjoying Kite Hill to apply to baked goods such as muffins in addition to bagels. It’s a close call—you really can’t go wrong here with either of these two brands.