Pizza Dip
This easy pizza dip recipe features layers of mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses, pizza sauce, and your favorite pizza toppings. Always a hit!
One of my favorite weeks of the year (aside from the week before Christmas) is the week before the Super Bowl. At no other point in time is it possible to find so many amazing appetizer and dip recipes. Right behind my love of desserts comes my love of appetizers, specifically dips.
Which means that on a day like Super Bowl Sunday, I am in a state of food nirvana. I love the excuse to try out new recipes and declare new favorites. This easy pizza dip is super simple and combines all of the crave-worthy flavors of a pizza without the need to toss dough, preheat a pizza stone, or bust out the pizza peel. An awesome compromise for the sake of dip.
Easy Pizza Dip!
This crazy delicious baked pepperoni pizza dip is made with cream cheese, mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses, pizza sauce, and your favorite pizza toppings!
Bust out your favorite pie plate and slather the bottom with a layer of cream cheese, top that cream cheese with shredded mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. Then add a layer of your favorite pizza sauce (I love DeLallo when doing store-bought, but I also have a favorite homemade pizza sauce, too), top with more shredded cheese, and then finish it off with your favorite pizza toppings.
I am definitely a purist when it comes to pizza – I am a pepperoni pizza girl pretty much 100% of the time, but I do love the combination of pepperoni, black olives and green pepper for a variety of flavors here. Feel free to switch it up though, whatever you like – mushrooms, sausage, bacon, veggies – possibilities are endless!
What do you serve with pizza dip? So many options!
- Baguette slices (toasted or un-toasted)
- Crusty chunks of bread
- Pita chips
- Tortilla chips
You could certainly serve this with other things, but I really like very lightly toasted baguette slices or chunks of crusty bread, like a country sourdough. They hold up well to the sauce and melted cheese, and they mimic a crust beautifully.
Happy pizza dipping, everyone! What would your ideal toppings be?
One year ago: Anitpasto Appetizer Squares
Two years ago: Seven Layer Dip
Pizza Dip
Ingredients
- 8 ounces (226.8 g) cream cheese, at room temperature
- 4 ounces (113.4 g) mozzarella cheese, shredded (about 1 cup), divided
- 4 ounces (113.4 g) Parmesan cheese, shredded (about 1 cup), divided
- 1 cup (245 g) pizza sauce
- 2 ounces (56.7 g) sliced pepperoni
- 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper
- 2 tablespoons sliced black olives
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Spread the cream cheese over the bottom of a 9-inch pie plate. Top with ½ cup of the shredded mozzarella and ½ cup of the Parmesan cheese.
- Spread the pizza sauce on top of the cheeses, and then top with the remaining ½ cup of mozzarella cheese and ½ cup of Parmesan cheese.
- Top with pepperoni slices, chopped green pepper and sliced black olives.
- Bake until the cheese is melted and bubbly, about 20 minutes. Serve with your favorite bread, toasted baguette slices, or chips.
Notes
- I like the "supreme" style topping combo of pepperoni, green peppers and black olives, but feel free to use your favorite pizza toppings, whatever they may be!
Did you make this recipe?
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Can this be served cold? I was thinking of taking it to a Super Bowl party and don’t want to have to use their oven.
great work love it
I layer mine in the crockpot! Â Also added garlic, salt and pepper and a little crushed red pepper in the cream cheese
And served with garlic bread sticks or knots
its delicious
Made this with my daughter for Super Bowl. Simple to assemble and it tastes great!Â
I make a pizza dip very similar to this one, so yummy! Mine is as follows:
1 (8) oz cream cheese, softened
1 tsp minced chives
1/2 cup pizza sauce
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1/3 cup chopped pepperoni
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup cheddar cheese
Grease either a pie plate or 1 – 1 1/2 quart baking dish. Layer in order, bake at 350 for 10-15 mins
I have prepared the version I have many times, plan to try yours with the small differences to see which one we favor.
Love your posts and the pictures of your children.
My favorite toppings are pepperoni, green olives with pimentos, and roasted red peppers. Got hooked on this combo 3 decades ago at Villa Pizza in “duhntuhn” Pittsburgh, around the corner from the Alcoa building. Would be awesome in your dip! Thanks.
I have been making a very close version of this recipe for nearly 30 years. Â Our grown sons still love this and make it at their own homes now. Â I got the recipe from a Junior League cookbook. Â Delicious!!
Looks so delicious and colorful! YUM!
EASY! AWESOME! I didn’t have pepperoni on hand but used mushrooms. YUM!
So easy & so good!! After baking, I blotted the top with a paper towel to remove some of the pepperoni grease. Made this for book club & the girls loved it! And, this would be the perfect Super Bowl dip!!
omg I’ve been scouring the web for recipes for my finances b day party and this looks incredible!!!
I’ve made Pizza Dip before. It always goes over well. This looks so good with the pieces of pepperoni on top.
this is such a fab idea!!! especially so for those who have difficulty making pizza dough (like myself). this looks amazing, i could almost smell it from my screen!!!
Thanks for sharing!! I am trying this right now for super bowl and hope that it comes out as great as your looks!
Oh man this pizza dip looks incredible! I love the pic of it flowing over the side of the slice of bread. Mmmm, totally into the pepperoni pizza deal, love the recipe!
Looks so good!
Did you use Parm out of the can or shredded?
Thanks
Thanks Kathy! Actually, neither. I used fresh grated Parmesan, which is sold in the cheese department of my local grocery store.
I’m loving the melty cheese and pepperoni, very enticing! I’m a pepperoni girl too but I love bacon on occasion.
I just died and went to heaven. Holy cow, this looks AMAZING!!!
I’m drooling here! That looks so good! I could eat pizza every day (and I do eat it at least once a week!) and having it as a dip sounds amazing. I think your toppings sound pretty good. I would add some red onion, and half mushroom for me, no mushrooms for the hubby!
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes… YES!
I want it so badly. Great idea and great post! :)
On bread slices, on zucchini slices, on pita chips, on anything, this is a perfect appetizer. Especially for the boys :)
oh wow. This would be so incredible right out of the oven! I am dying here. Must Make some!!!!
Another great dip idea! I’d probably throw mushrooms and onions on mine, but I do love pepperoni too so maybe all 3? :)
Pizza dip is the best!
ohhh how I just want to dig into that cheesy-goodness!! Fab-u-lous recipe :)
This is basically the same as the Pampered Chef recipe I learned years ago when I sold product briefly. Try adding a teaspoon of Italian seasoning in the cream cheese layer…super yummy! :)
I just found your blog and am so glad I did! I can’t wait to try this and I’m also going to pass it along to my mom who entertains her scrappin’ ladies every other week!
Yum! This looks awesome! I might try mini bagels or soft pretzels for dipping, but the baguette looks good too!
That looks and sounds absolutely delish! I love margherita pizza but something tells me spinach and balls of fresh mozzarella wouldn’t exactly hold up in dip form ;-) Love the pepperoni and olive combo though!
Amazing just drooling over….Great dip recipe :)
Oh. my. word. Looks amazing! PS- Thrilled to see you’ll be at FBF Orlando!
Oh, my girlfriends and I made this dip for a get together last month. It was SO SO good! I couldn’t stop eating it! It is definitely one of my favorite dips ever!
This looks like basically eating a bowl of melty cheese with some sauce and pepperoni thrown on top to make it look like you’re not just eaing a bowl of melty cheese. And I am SO ok with that. Yum!
Wow. I’m making this stat. I could probably eat the entire dish.
I made this dip for last year’s Super Bowl party and it was a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Seriously. It’s one of my favorites.
Oh my goodness! I’ve just added this to my list of favorites…
Oh my deliciousness! I love that you added black olives (one of my favorite things in the world). This looks amazing for the Superbowl!
You had me at pizza! This looks great!
Oh yum! I think I am going to make this for dinner tonight! It looks amazing! My HUsband and step-daughter will love it!! I never cared for the week before the SUper Bowl, it was just an oridnary day till I started blogging! Now I just love all of these fun recipes!!!
I’m with you on being a dip-aholic!! I could live on them!
My mouth is watering! Just give me a spoon! However—I think you meant to use 2 Tablespoons of slices Black Olives instead of Black Pepper?? Ha!
Gah, you are right! Not sure how I missed that! I made the correction above, thank you for catching it!
Winter is like a landmine of calories in my house. The holidays, 6 birthdays, Valentines Day and Fat Tuesday. Typically I try to by-pass all the Super Bowl hupla; until I seen this. Wow!!!
Mmm what a heavenly dip!
I’ve never seen this before – it looks awesome and like such a fun party dish!
Oooh, that looks awesome! I’ve never heard of pizza dip, but I think I want a bowl. Now.
I’ve seen pizza dip on another blog recently because there’s a pizza dip recipe floating around Pinterest I see quite a bit and it looks….sooooo good! Yours, that one, all of it. Gimme!!!
You seriously know the way to my heart! This would be perfect for superbowl…or any other day of the week. :-D