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Cream Cheese spread has been whipped to make it spread easier so it is a softer product. Cream cheese is a soft solid block. There would be a difference in the outcome of what you are making if you used the spread...

I use a lot of cream cheese blocks in cooking; however, this X-mas was making an old recipe of Shrimp Mousse for my daughter. I had used about 10 blocks of cream cheese and ran out. When I went to grocery store they were completely out, so I bought the spread. The Mousse did not completely set, even though there was gelatin in the recipe. It looked beautiful. When we took it out of the mold, it just fell.........

No, but you can probably get away with substituting them for Oreo Truffles. The spread has a lot of air whipped into it, so you may need more by weight than a block of cream cheese (8oz). Make sure it's PLAIN as well.

cream cheese spread has additional ingredients in it so it stays spreadable which cream cheese is a solid block and not spreadable until softened.

There should be some solid block cream cheese in the supermarket!! talk to the manager of the dairy section and see where it is. You are missing it while looking at the stuff the marketers want you to see. that is always at eye level and up front. The main brand name is Philadelphia and is a silver and blue box!!

I'm thinking the recipe calls for cream cheese in its "block" form as opposed to "spreadable" or "whipped" (think regular butter vs. margarine "spreads"). In any supermarket's dairy section, you can find a cream cheese, such as Philadelphia Cream Cheese, in the block form as well as the "whipped" or "spreadable" forms which are usually sold in tubs. I just bought the regular Philadelphia cream cheese yesterday and it came in 8oz foil-wrapped blocks. Hope this helps!