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 might have left this a litt!! Sharon🌞le too soon because I actually found your recipe online and I’m making it for a super bowl party at work tomorrow, but it looks amazing and it was so easy.. definitely going to be accompanying me on lots of parties this year. Thank you so much looking forward to trying your other recipes too🌞
Thanks for the 5 star review and I know your work friends are going to adore this!
My sincere apologies, Averie. I didn’t read my emails yesterday, and just sent you one about the broken link.
12 servings? 🤣🤣🤣 Appetizer /supper = 1. Before bed snack =2! 😬
I followed the recipe for the most part but make a couple small tweaks. I added a little more of everything aside from more cream cheese and instead of Parmesan cheese I used a queso pizza blend! Some alterations that seemed to work: I used mini hormel pepperonis while layering so each bite would get some pepperoni! You could also cut or divide regular sized pepperoni and incorporate those. I also added some Italian seasoning and garlic powder. Not to each layer and not a lot, but enough to give it a little something extra. With the extra cheese and extra sauce I wanted it to layer nicely so I did – cream cheese base, small pepperonis, cheese blend, Italian seasoning, garlic and pizza sauce. Repeat until your casserole dish is getting to the top….cover with a final layer of cheese and top with pepperoni. It was a huge hit! You really can’t go wrong with this dip. It’s my family’s new favorite.
I followed the recipe for the most part but make a couple small tweaks. I added a little more of everything aside from more cream cheese and instead of Parmesan cheese I used a queso pizza blend! Some alterations that seemed to work: I used mini hormel pepperonis while layering so each bite would get some pepperoni! You could also cut or divide regular sized pepperoni and incorporate those. I also added some Italian seasoning and garlic powder. Not to each layer and not a lot, but enough to give it a little something extra. With the extra cheese and extra sauce I wanted it to layer nicely so I did – cream cheese base, small pepperonis, cheese blend, Italian seasoning, garlic and pizza sauce. Repeat until your casserole dish is getting to the top….cover with a final layer of cheese and top with pepperoni. It was a huge hit! You really can’t go wrong with this dip. It’s my family’s new favorite.
Thanks for the 5 star review and I am glad this is your family’s new favorite!
I’m not usually one to leave reviews, but this dip was better than I could have imagined. Made it exactly like the recipe, and ate it with some toasted baguette slices and homemade pita chip crisps.
I like the idea of a pizza dip but what happens to the texture after it cools off? Are you still able to scoop/dip it with a cracker or some type of chip without it crumbling to bits or is it beyond soft and scoop able because it has cooled? Cheese does harden up after all. At a gathering other dips and apps will be out so this probably won’t be the center of attraction (unless I eat it all myself). Love pizza, love this recipe!
Yes cheese does harden but I would say you have 90 minutes or so with this without worrying about it. Make sure people know HOT DIP here (aka eat this one first!). I don’t think you’ll have any problems getting it off your hands!
I made it the day before and put it in the oven cold and turned the oven on to 375 and baked it for 20 minutes. Turned out great!
I made it the day before and put it in the oven cold and turned the oven on to 375 and baked it for 20 minutes. Turned out great!
Can I assemble this dip the day before and then put it in the refrigerator and bake it the next day?
Thank you.
Yes probably although I haven’t personally tried. I would let it come to room temp on the counter before baking to ensure the cheese melts nicely without anything else overcooking.
Thank you! If it turns out I will let you know.
Ok great!
I’m going to make this tomorrow for Super bowl
Awesome! I’m sure everyone will love it!
This looks like perfect super bowl food!
Paige
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Has anyone tried the pizza dip recipe in a crock pot?
I personally haven’t tried it.
Made this before and LOVED it! Making again this weekend! If I wanted to double the recipe, what size dish would I use?
My guess is I would use a 9×13-inch casserole dish or similar but since I haven’t ever doubled it, cannot say for sure.