Pizza Dip Recipe
This Pizza Dip Recipe is so easy to make and always a huge hit. In under 20 minutes, you can have the ultimate appetizer full of cheesy goodness that everyone will love!
For more amazing Appetizer Recipes, be sure to check out my Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers, Chili Cheese Fries, and Buffalo Chicken Fingers.
Whenever I need a crowd pleasing appetizer, this Pizza Dip Recipe is one of my favorites to cook up. It takes mere minutes to prepare, and then it seems to disappear just as fast once it’s out of the oven.
It’s all because this Pizza Dip is simply AMAZING. Seriously. You need it in your life!
I started making this pizza dip recipe many years ago for my family, and mostly with my son in mind. My son loves pizza; it’s his absolute favorite food. When he was a lot smaller, his other favorite food was crackers, so this was the perfect combination of the two. If you gave that boy Pepperoni Pizza Dip, he was in pizza heaven!
Really, this dip is so good and easy to make. It’s the perfect hot appetizer for a party or get-together, especially with football season finally here. Make it and I bet you’ll love it!
Ingredients You Need for Pizza Dip
- brick style cream cheese
- sour cream
- oregano
- garlic salt
- pizza sauce
- mozzarella cheese
- pepperonis
- Italian seasoning
- chips/crackers for dipping
How to Make this Pizza Dip Recipe – Step by Step
Step 1: Mix ingredients
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Combine the cream cheese, sour cream, oregano, and garlic salt in a bowl and mix well. Spread into the bottom of a 9 inch baking dish.
Step 2: Bake for 10 minutes
Spread the pizza sauce over the top, then top with a few pepperonis. Bake for 10 minutes.
Step 3: Add cheese
Remove from the oven and sprinkle with the cheese and top with more pepperonis. Bake for an additional 7-8 minutes
Step 4: Broil
Turn on your oven’s broiler and cook the pizza dip for 1-2 minutes to crisp up the pepperonis (watch carefully so they don’t burn.) Serve warm and enjoy!
Tips and Notes
- Use brick style cream cheese. It melts nicely and will give you the best creamy and rich taste.
- For best texture: make sure your cream cheese is completely softened so it fully incorporates. You don’t want to end up with lumps of cream cheese in your pizza dip.
- Use marinara in place of the pizza sauce. I do this sometimes when I don’t have pizza sauce on hand. It tastes just as good!
- Topping ideas: Feel free to add any additional toppings to your pizza dip that you or your family enjoy, such as mushrooms, green peppers, olives, chopped onion, etc.
- Storing: Any leftover pizza dip can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to four days. Reheat either on the stove over low heat, in the microwave at 30 second intervals, or in the crockpot using the “warm” setting.
Serving Suggestions
We love serving this delicious pizza dip with:
- slices of crusty bread
- pita chips
- tortilla chips
- crackers
- pretzel chips
- mini garlic toasts or crostini
Crockpot Pizza Dip
This Pizza Dip Recipe translates perfectly to the crockpot! Simply add your cream cheese, sour cream, oregano, garlic salt, pizza sauce, and a small handful of pepperonis to your crockpot and stir. Cook on high for 1-2 hours or low for 3-4. Remove the lid and stir everything well. Top with the mozzarella cheese and more pepperonis. Put the lid back on and cook for 15 more minutes until cheese is melted.
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If you try this recipe, please leave a comment and rating below. I love to hear from you and always appreciate your feedback!
Pizza Dip Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1/4 tsp garlic salt
- 1 can pizza sauce
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- pepperonis for topping
- italian seasoning
- chips/crackers/pita chips for dipping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine cream cheese, sour cream, oregano, and garlic salt in a medium sized bowl and mix well. Spread mixture into the bottom of 9 inch pie pan.
- Spread pizza sauce evenly over the top of cream cheese mixture and top with a few pepperonis. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven.
- Remove from the oven and top with mozzarella cheese and a few more pepperonis. Return to oven and bake for 7-8 additional minutes, or until cheese is melted.
- Turn the broiler on and broil the top for about a minute or two, until the cheese is dotted with brown and the pepperonis crisp up a bit. WATCH THIS STEP CAREFULLY! You don’t want to burn all that delicious, cheesy goodness. 🙂
- Remove from oven and sprinkle the top with italian seasoning. Serve with crackers or pita chips. Enjoy!
Notes
- Use brick style cream cheese. It melts nicely and will give you the best creamy and rich taste.
- For best texture: make sure your cream cheese is completely softened so it fully incorporates. You don’t want to end up with lumps of cream cheese in your pizza dip.
- Use marinara in place of the pizza sauce. I do this sometimes when I don’t have pizza sauce on hand. It tastes just as good!
- Topping ideas: Feel free to add any additional toppings to your pizza dip that you or your family enjoy, such as mushrooms, green peppers, olives, chopped onion, etc.
- Storing: Any leftover pizza dip can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to four days. Reheat either on the stove over low heat, in the microwave at 30 second intervals, or in the crockpot using the “warm” setting.
I am making this for the first time following the method listed, and doubling the ingredients to make a larger batch. But I am wondering if this is something that could be made in the crockpot as well?
Yes, the crockpot would work great!
Is the can of pasta sauce 24 oz?
Great question! It’s 14 ounces. I’ll add that to the recipe.
Oh wow! This is so good and so easy to prepare! I love how you can have different kinds of chips or crackers you can use to dip!
Can not wait to try this one out…we are pizza crazy and sounds like a hit with everyone who has posted. Will post my comments once I make this! Thanks!!
We had this at a 4th of July party. It was so good I couldn’t stop myself from having more. What a hit it was. I can’t wait to make it.!
Could I layer cooked sausage on the sauce, then pepperoni. That’s our usual combo, and since I’m celiac could EST it, since no crust
Yum! I never thought to make this into a dip! This looks delicoius
Oh my… this looks absolutely delicious. Making it this weekend!!!!
This pepperoni pizza dip is going to become your new favorite appetizer! It’s so good you will want to eat it all.
Oh my gosh, this looks incredible. I cannot wait to try this out.
Oops forgot to rate with stars.
So good I made for our Favorite Things party and everyone loved it. I made some minor changes and did 1-1/2 Tbsp of Italian Seasoning (from HEB that I believe has Garlic Pepper and maybe parmesan in it too), a few more shakes of garlic salt. I used 10 slices of Pepperoni from the deli sliced at a #2. I took half and diced into smaller pieces for the first layer and the other half I quartered on top. Also added a couple shakes of parmesan cheese to the cheese on top. I loved it with Bagel Chips as the dipper and maybe next time I will add some toasted crostinis too. Thanks for the recipe, it was great!
Love this dip. I served with large Fritos scoops. Huge hit.
I made this tonight after seeing this recipe a few days ago. So I figured why not, and I fixed this tonight. This was absolutely fantastic! It is very filling and extremely delicious!i made this exactly as directed. Picky eaters at my house devoured this dip! If you haven’t made this, do it now! You won’t regret it!
Oh my word!! This dip is going to be such a hit in our house.
Pizza is one of my fav. foods, I eat it twice a week when I’m not on diet and this pizza dip looks amazing.
What a fun unique dip! My kids would love this too.
You combined two of my very favorite things into one recipe!
This sounds so good! Thinking I might make this for Super Bowl Sunday. I have fresh mozzarella and the block. Which do you prefer would be better since I do have both on hand?
Hi Lauren! I would use the block.
Pizza dip is one of my favorite things to make for a party. It’s always a hit!
This looks Amazing! Perfect for snacking.
wow this dip looks fantastic, all that cheese and the pepperoni are so tasty. The perfect dip for a party. A crowd pleaser too.
Oh my word… you had me at hello!! I adore pizza and I adore cheese! Love making things that riff on pizza… I did a savoury margharita bread & butter pudding once with mozzarella, tomato and basil… So good!