22 Crowd-Pleaser Dips: The Best Party Dip Recipes

Whether you are hosting a family gathering, game day event, backyard bbq or just a party with friends, crowd-pleaser dips are always everyone’s favorite. They can be cheesy, meaty, creamy, crunchy, sweet, savory, warm or cold, but above all, easy party dip recipes are bursting with delicious flavor. Serve crowd pleaser dips with potato chips, crackers, tortilla chips, crusty bread, cookies, graham crackers or fresh fruit and vegetables. This is a list of our all time favorite party dips. They are scrumptious, quick, easy to make and definitely satisfy all your dip cravings!

Hot Dip Recipes

Warm dips are very versatile and can be served as an easy appetizer at a dinner party, a snack at your next party or even as a fun lunch combined with crusty bread and a crunchy salad. Our favorite easy dip recipes only use simple ingredients, do not require fancy equipment and taste great at any special occasion. If you’re serving them at a Super Bowl party, put them in a crockpot to keep them warm.

Chili Cheese Dip

This crowd pleaser combines cream cheese, comforting chili and lots of gooey cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack. Chili cheese dip cooks in the oven or in a crockpot. In case you are in a time crunch, you can assemble this creamy, and cheesy dip a day ahead of time.

Chili cheese dip tastes amazing with tortilla chips, Fritos, tostadas, crackers or veggie sticks.

Crack Corn Dip

Crack corn dip is creamy, cheesy and packed with golden corn. This tasty dip is made from frozen corn, green chilies, sour cream, cream cheese, shredded cheese and spices. It can be oven baked or cooked in a crockpot. You can even prepare it ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator until ready to bake.

It tastes great with tortilla chips, tostadas, crackers or pita chips and is always a huge hit on game days, at summer cookouts or parties.

Rotel Dip with Sausage

This absolute crowd pleaser only requires 3 ingredients: Velveeta cheese, Rotel tomatoes and sausage. Rotel is a mixture of petit diced tomatoes, green and spices, almost like salsa. It cooks up on the stovetop in a record 15 minutes! However, rotel dip also cooks in a slow cooker, if you prefer.

Serve this crowd-pleaser dip with tortilla chips, pita chips, bagel chips, crackers, pretzels or fresh vegetables. This scrumptious appetizer is one of the best dip recipes ever.

Easy Hot Cheesy Pizza Dip Recipe

Delicious hot pepperoni pizza dip combines mouthwatering layers of seasoned cream cheese, pizza sauce, mozzarella, parmesan and pepperoni. You can also easily personalize this oven baked dip by adding your favorite pizza toppings such as black olives, green bell peppers or red onion, for example.

Serve this yummy party snack with crusty bread, pita chips, crackers, bagel chips, tortilla chips, garlic bread, french bread, pita bread or fresh bell peppers.

Hot Artichoke Spinach Dip

Hot spinach and artichoke dip is an oven baked classic, that can be served as a perfect appetizer or delicious party dip. It is a blend of cream cheese, butter, sour cream, mozzarella and parmesan cheese, spinach and artichoke hearts.

Serve this creamy spinach dip with toasted white bread, tortilla chips, pita chips, bagel chips, raw veggies, or crackers.

Queso Blanco

This amazing white queso is made from scratch with real cheese! We use evaporated milk and cornstarch for our silky smooth Mexican cheese sauce to avoid curdling or separation. Pour this smooth, creamy cheese sauce over nachos, tacos, baked potatoes or roasted vegetables.

Queso is a great appetizer, party or game day snack, but can also be served as part of a taco station or as a side dish for a Mexican inspired dinner.

Mississippi Sin Dip

This scrumptious football season favorite is a blend of cream cheese, sour cream, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, ham, green onions and cheddar cheese. It can be baked in a bread bowl or casserole dish.

This amazing hot ham and cheese dip is one of the best recipes to use up leftover holiday ham. You can serve this cream cheese dip recipe with bread bowl pieces, any white crusty bread, potato chips, crackers or corn chips.

Cold Dip Recipes

The great thing about cold dips, they only use a few simple ingredients and are ready in just minutes. Cold dips can be prepared several hours or up to 2 days ahead of time and then refrigerated until ready to use. They therefore make party preparations easy and a lot less stressful. Additionally, cold dips make great appetizers for dinner parties or simply serve them with drinks!

Million Dollar Dip

Even though you only need a bowl, a wooden spoon and 5 ingredients for this easy dip recipe, it tastes like a million bucks! Mayonnaise serves as the creamy base for this amazing dip, but can be substituted with greek yoghurt or sour cream. Its other main ingredients are cheddar cheese, green onions, almonds and bacon. 

This is one of the easiest but most flavorful party dip recipes ever. Serve million dollar dip with buttery crackers, tortilla chips, celery sticks, carrot sticks, bagel chips, pita chips, salty pretzels or any of your favorite crackers.

Sour Cream and Onion Dip

This simple French onion dip recipe only uses 2 ingredients and is ready to serve in just 5 minutes. Sometimes also referred to as “California Dip”, this flavorful dip is a simple combination of sour cream and onion soup mix. Use homemade French onion soup mix for the most delicious flavor.

Serve this easy dip recipe with plain potato chips, crackers, pita chips, tortilla chips, fresh veggie sticks, or pretzels.

Ranch Dip

This easy recipe is a simple combination of sour cream, mayonnaise and ranch dressing mix. And the best part, this amazing dip is ready in only 5 minutes. You will get the best flavor using homemade ranch seasoning mix for this dip.

Serve creamy ranch dip with a bag of chips, tortilla chips, fresh veggies, such as carrots, red peppers or celery sticks, for example. Moreover, this flavorful dip also tastes amazing with fried fish, potato wedges, chicken wings or tater tots.

Dill Pickle Dip

The base for this mouthwatering dip is made by mixing up sour cream, cream cheese and ranch seasoning mix. Then simply add sliced deli ham, green onions and your favorite dill pickles and you have a crowd favorite dip that is ready in just minutes.

Enjoy this creamy and zingy dill pickle dip with Ritz crackers, Triscuits, potato chips, pretzels or with fresh veggies, such as carrots, red peppers or celery sticks, for example. Additionally, this amazing appetizer also tastes great on sandwiches.

Creamy Dill Dip

You only need a bowl and a whisk to make this easy sour cream and mayo based dip that gets its flavor from fresh dill and aromatic spices. Even though it is ready in just 10 minutes, we recommend letting it rest in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to let the flavors develop. It is the perfect dip to make ahead of time when hosting a party.

Creamy dill dip makes a great center piece on a veggie platter, as it tastes delicious with carrots, celery, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and more. In addition, you can dip buttery crackers, fresh crusty bread or potato chips into this amazing cold dip.

Sweet Dip Recipes

When you hear crowd-pleaser dips, you most likely think of savory dips. However, sweet dips are also a must have dessert at a good party. Dessert dips have a sweet creamy base and delicious add-ins such as chocolate chips, nuts, or mini M&Ms, for example. They are the ultimate party food and all your guests will love them.

Cookie Dough Dip

Cookie dough dip is generally made from cream cheese, butter, sugars, vanilla and add-ins, such as chocolate chips or toffee pieces. It does not contain any flour or raw eggs, and is therefore completely safe to eat! Ready in just 5 minutes, this is one of your absolute favorite dips.

Serve this classic dip with chocolate chip cookies, fresh fruit, honey graham crackers, animal crackers, pretzel rods, vanilla wafers or apple slices. You can even dip pretzels into this sweet treat to get an irresistible sweet and salty combo.

S’mores Skillet Cookie Dip

This scrumptious dessert dip combines a warm and gooey chocolate chip cookie base with a toasted marshmallow s’mores top. The cookie dough in this amazing dip is made from scratch and only uses simple ingredients. Best of all, this oven baked treat is ready in just 30 minutes. If you love s’mores you’ll love this s’mores skillet cookie!

Serve this fun twist on a summer time classic with graham crackers or simply spoon it out of the pan.

Peanut Butter Cheesecake Dip

Peanut butter cheesecake dip only uses 5 simple ingredients: cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, heavy cream and vanilla. Moreover, this amazing peanut butter and cream cheese fruit dip takes only about 5 minutes to make and can be served immediately! Simply combine all ingredients in a food processor and you end up with the most delicious fruit dip.

Enjoy this scrumptious party snack with fruit such as apple slices, strawberries or blueberries, for example. However, it also tastes great with crackers, cookies and even pretzels.

Booty Dip

This viral TikTok dip recipe is a heavenly combination of cream cheese, marshmallow creme, heavy whipping cream, brown sugar, vanilla and lots of mini chocolate chips. Booty dip has gotten its name from the tagline that when you eat it you can watch your booty grow. And with it being so creamy, light, delicious and simply addictive, they are not wrong!

Serve this scrumptious chocolate chip marshmallow fluff dip with graham crackers, Nilla wafers, animal crackers or just spoons. However, it also tastes great with fresh berries such as strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries, for example.