Easy Pizza Dip — 🍕😋 Cheese lovers and pizza fans will love this fast and easy dip recipe!! It’s the perfect party food that’s a guaranteed hit!
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Easy Pizza Dip Recipe
Pizza. It’s everyone’s favorite food. Especially for game days, family-friendly weeknight dinners, and those must-have-cheese-now situations.
If you’re a cheese lover or a pizza fan you’re going to love this crustless pizza dip!
It’s so fast and easy to make that you can have it assembled and in the oven in less than 5 minutes without dirtying a single bowl. The perfect kind of recipe.
There are only 5 ingredients in the dip, and 3 of them are cheese. Cream cheese, mozzarella cheese, and parmesan cheese that are layered into pizza sauce and topped with pepperoni.
Ingredients in Pizza Dip
To make this baked pizza dip recipe, you’ll need:
- Cream cheese
- Grated mozzarella
- Grated Parmesan
- Pizza sauce (homemade or store-bought)
- Pepperoni
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Pizza Dip
This is such an easy dip recipe! Here’s an overview of how the cream cheese pizza dip comes together:
- Spray a 9-inch pie dish with cooking spray, then carefully spread the cream cheese all around the base of the dish.
- Sprinkle half the Parmesan and mozzarella over the cream cheese, then spread the pizza sauce over top.
- Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the pizza sauce before adding the pepperoni slices.
- Bake the pepperoni dip until the cheese is fully melted and the dip is done to your liking.
Recipe FAQs
Be sure to use brick-style cream cheese for the richest, creamiest pepperoni pizza dip. Lite cream cheese is fine IF it’s the kind sold in a brick, not the whipped kind in a tub. You also want your cream cheese to be softened to room temperature so it’s easier to spread around the pie dish.
Definitely! It’s best warm and fresh, but leftovers can be gently reheated in the microwave.
If you’re a fan of doctored up pizza (my family isn’t), feel free to add black olives, sausage, bell peppers, pineapple, or whatever floats your pizza boat. You can use pretty much any of your favorite pizza toppings in this recipe!
I’ve never made pizza dip in a slow cooker before, so I’m not sure if it’ll work. Based on the texture of this dip, my gut says it won’t.
However, I DO have a slow cooker sausage cheese dip recipe that tastes like sausage pizza. So If you really want to slow cook this easy pizza dip, use the sausage dip as a jumping off point and use your best judgement when tweaking this recipe.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to serving this pepperoni pizza dip! If you think something will taste good dunked in pizza sauce in cheese, then it probably will.
Here are some serving suggestions to get you started: toasted baguette slices, breadsticks, garlic toast, pita chips, bagel chips, pretzels, crackers.
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Easy Pizza Dip
Ingredients
- 8 ounces brick-style cream cheese, very well-softened (lite is okay)
- 1 ½ cups grated mozzarella cheese, divided (3/4 cup + 3/4 cup)
- 1 cup finely grated parmesan cheese, divided (1/2 cup + 1/2 cup)
- 1 heaping cup pizza sauce, or your favorite marinara or red sauce
- about 15 pepperoni slices, or as needed to cover surface of pie dish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F. Spray a 9-inch pie dish (I used a glass Pyrex) with cooking spray.
- Using a spatula or butter knife, evenly spread the cream cheese over the base of pie dish. It’ll slide around a bit and it doesn’t have to be perfect, but it’s so much easier if your cream cheese is very well-softened.
- Evenly sprinkle 3/4 cup mozzarella over cream cheese.
- Evenly sprinkle 1/2 cup parmesan.
- Evenly add the pizza sauce to cover cheese and if necessary, gently spread it with a spatula or knife to evenly disperse.
- Evenly sprinkle 3/4 cup mozzarella over sauce.
- Evenly sprinkle 1/2 cup parmesan.
- Evenly top with pepperoni slices.
- Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes (I baked 23 minutes), or until cheese has melted and dip is done to your liking. Allow dip to cool momentarily before serving.
Notes
- Serving Suggestions: toasted French bread or baugettes, breadsticks, garlic toasts, pita chips, bagel chips, crackers, or eat by the spoonful.
- Dip is best warm and fresh, but extra will keep airtight in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Gently re-heat in micro before serving leftover portion.
- Read product labels to ensure all products are gluten-free if that’s a consideration for you.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Originally published Jan 28, 2015 and republished Jan 24, 2020 with updated text.
I made this and it looked great and tasted good. But I must have done something wrong because the mozzarella cheese hardened up as soon as it cooled down a bit, making it very hard to get a spoonful out of the pan without making a mess with the soft cheese underneath. Any suggestions on what I might have done wrong to cause that?
Possibly overbaked it? Mozzarella is the same kind of cheese you’d find on pizza and yes after time it does harden up, that’s normal for any cheese upon cooling. Not sure if this was more pronounced or not…but maybe try a different brand of cheese next time and be sure not to overbake it.
This looks sooooooooo good. What kind of parm. cheese do I use? The stuff in the green can or the other?Or could I just leave it out or add extra mozzarella cheese?
I haven’t used green can parm in ages and for this recipe I used grated parm in a tub that I bought at Trader Joe’s. Check your local grocery store in the cheese section (ask someone because sometimes different cheeses are kept in different places) if you can’t find it. I would definitely recommend that over the green can cheese.
This pizza dip is delightfully cheesy and delicious. I made spaghetti for dinner two nights ago and had quite a bit of garlic bread leftover, so we used that to scoop up the dip. So good! I let my six year old put it all together, which he loved. Thank you for another tasty recipe!
Glad you loved it and that’s so fun that you had a 6 year old little helper!
I made it today and it left me speechless.
So. Good! I mean – it’s not a surprise that baked cheese IS good, but I did’t think this pizza dip could be so delicious. I’m really afraid that I will eat much more than I should :)
Thanks for trying the recipe and I’m glad it came out great for you!
Hi there! I was hoping to make this for a company party this Thursday- its a fondue theme and I got assigned “pizza fondue” and I’ve never made anything like this before! Would it be possible to make this in a crock pot? Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Based on the texture of this dip, I don’t know if it would be do-able in a crockpot. Maybe…maybe not. I would advise to just bake it like I wrote. Good luck!
That looks SO incredibly delicious. I’m about to give it a try, and I already know it will be de-lish! :)
Looks very delicious! I’m going to try your recipe today
This recipe looks sooooooo good! Perfect for game day!
Just 5 minutes of prep and no crust (so theoretically I can eat more cookies as my “carbs”)?? Yes. Just yes. If you’re serving this at the Super Bowl on Sunday, I’m totally coming over! ;)
I could eat this every day!! Cheesy dips are my weakness! Pinned!
You have some gorgeous cheese breads, too!
I agree with that that this is the perfect kind of recipe. Looks too tasty. I began smacking my lips.
Greeting, Lydia
OMG, my mouth is watering right now!!
You just need something cold to wash it down with and life is perfect! Hope you have a great Superbowl weekend!
Oh man, that looks like some greasy goodness!
I often experience must-have-cheese-now days!
Glad you can relate :)
it could very well be the best dip ever! Who doesnt like pizza in the form of a dip?
Hey, Averie This Pizza looks really delicious, Ill try this recipe on weekend :) Thanks for Sharing :) P.S. Pinned it to my pinterest ;)
Thanks for pinning!