Warm and Cheesy Bacon Dip
This warm and cheesy bacon dip is creamy and packed with lots of bacon. It’s a hot version of the popular Loaded Baked Potato Dip!
As soon as the air starts to feel a little bit more crisp and televisions are tuned into football all day Saturday and Sunday, I start to get the itch to whip up dips for snacking. When it comes to dip recipes, there is absolutely no way you can go wrong with cheese and bacon. The more of both, the better, as far as I’m concerned.
This warm and cheesy bacon dip combines cream cheese, sour cream, cheddar cheese, bacon and scallions, and is baked until melted, bubbly and perfect for dipping.
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A few years ago, I shared a recipe for loaded baked potato dip… if you haven’t tried it yet (and you should!), it combines all of the flavors that you would typically use to top a baked potato – sour cream, bacon, cheese and scallions (or chives) – and then you dig in with potato chips. This warm and cheesy bacon dip basically takes all of those same flavors and adds cream cheese for extra creaminess, and bakes it up into a melted, bubbling hot dip.
You can serve this with potato chips, tortilla chips, pita chips, baguette slices, your favorite crackers… even vegetables if you want to try to counteract all of that cheesy bacon goodness.
What are your favorite types of dips for game day snacking?
If You Like This Warm and Cheesy Bacon Dip, Try These Recipes:
One year ago: Maple-Apple Pie with Walnut Crumble Topping
Two years ago: Ultimate Nachos with Beer-Braised Carnitas
Five years ago: Banana Nut Bread
Warm and Cheesy Bacon Dip
Ingredients
- 16 ounces (453.59 ml) sour cream
- 12 ounces (340.2 g) bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 8 ounces (226.8 g) cream cheese, at room temperature
- 8 ounces (226.8 g) cheddar cheese, shredded (about 2 cups)
- ⅓ cup (33.33 g) sliced scallions, about 3 scallions
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, stir together all of the ingredients until thoroughly combined. Spoon mixture into a 1½-quart baking dish.
- Bake until the dip is bubbling and starting to brown on top, 30 to 35 minutes. Serve warm with chips, baguette slices or your favorite crackers.
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Made this with smoked cream cheese and it was very good. Simple and quick recipe. Will def be making again. Followed the directions pretty closely, but omitted the scallions.
Do you need to cover it in the oven?
Nope
I must have done something wrong, although I thought I double checked the measurements. The taste was amazing, but way too thin for dipping.I am going to use it as a topping for baked potatoes, though.
So easy and delicious! Works good for keto/low carb eating too. I brought this to a family gathering and it was a huge hit! Thank you for this awesome recipe.
Perfect recipe!!! We add ranch dressing seasoning to ours for a little extra flavor. So versatile with so many possibilities. We make this often
I just discovered this recipe a couple of weeks ago and have made it three times since. Never any leftovers! This is fantastic! Thank you!
I think this may be better with more sour cream. Also the cook time is too long. More than half was wasted because it wasn’t quite burned but it was so brown and hard I couldn’t eat it. It was burnt on the edges and bottom of pan. But the cheese in the middle tasted good but it was in no way bubbly. It was more of a cheese cake. But I didike the taste but I had to use a spoon to get it on the chip and most was not edible
This dip is really delicious! It doesn’t reheat well, but it’s great cold.
Easy, delicious, and the crowd always calls for more! This is the only cheese bacon dip recipe you’ll need- it’s only improved by the quality of the cheese and bacon you use! Thanks for a recipe I use again and again!
Hi, I wonder if I can freeze it. Thanks
I don’t why this has only a 3.7 star review…this recipe is amazing. I have been making it for the past few years for parties and events and everyone loves it. It’s always the biggest hit and doesn’t last. Thanks for a great go to recipe.
I love this recipe! So simple, so delicious…and so very addictive! I’ve made this so many times over the last few years and it always gets compliments.
Yes I made it . It was amazing!!!
So good! Perfect flavor, good for anytime. From family game night, to birthday parties or just because 10/10 would recommend!
I’ve made this numerous times and everyone loved it. I’m making it again this weekend cuz I know it’ll be a hit!
I am so sorry! I accidentally rated this recipe a one star even though I haven’t even made it. I was trying to click on “print” and by mistake clicked on the one star. I am really excited to try this recipe and wish I hadn’t clicked on the wrong spot.
Whats the price one pays for being spammed. Too many ads
Hi Russ, I’m pretty sure when you are receiving a recipe for FREE that you aren’t being SPAMMED. The ads are how this website owner (and every website owner) pays for the website that offers YOU FREE recipes and information.
Just like commercials , Annual calls for funding on NPR, local business names on the back of little league uniforms, THIS is how websites are funded so that the general population doesn’t have to pay for them.
Russ, have you ever yelled out into the crowd at a little league game, ‘I’m being SPAMMED by the ads on the kids shirts and the ads for the local businesses that are posted on the outfield fence and the ads in the paper program”. Maybe you have?
A website is an expensive thing to produce. This author has costs around putting the website up on the internet (the costs of running an online business), she has costs for the food she uses in the videos and photos, she has to pay for her camera, video camera, production equipment and digital programs that make it all work, she has to spend lots of time creating, writing and producing the recipes. She may pay fees to belong to associations of professionals so that she can keep her own skills up just to teach YOU how to make bacon dip.
This is either her work (if she is lucky enough to be able to pay herself a wage) OR it is her expensive hobby that she does in her free time. Either way, she has a ton of expenses associated with it.
So, yes, you may see some ads. But you also got a quality recipe that cost you NOTHING.
I bet if you wrote to her kindly that she might offer to pull recipes for you and email them to you if you are willing to pay her a monthly membership fee of something like $25 per month. You’ll need to get about 100 of your friends to do it with you to make it worth her time, but it’s an idea.
If you are looking for a no ads recipe finding experience, I recommend that you collect shelves full of recipe books. I have a TON of recipe books and I’ve never seen an ad in any of them. However, finding just the right recipe can be a pain and they never have videos that show me how things are supposed to look. But, no ads and I don’t feel spammed.
OR
You could make friends with older ladies at church who like to cook. Chances are that they have a LOT of great recipes and are willing to share them with you for free and with NO ADS! How wonderful for you Russ! It’s a great way to make friends too!
Just saying…
Very frustrating , I was watching the how to make the gooey cream cheese dip. I accidentally fast forwarded the video and was never able to find it again. Ill use another website from now on. Too many ads and too much spamming
Do you think chopped mushrooms would be good to add to this delicious cream cheese and bacon dip?
Hi Pattie, I personally wouldn’t care for it, but go for it if you do! I would recommend cooking them down first or using canned mushrooms so the dip doesn’t get too watery from the mushrooms cooking IN the dip. Enjoy!
can I mix this up and freeze for a later date
Hi Cheryl, I’m not sure how well this would freeze/thaw. I think I would recommend making fresh; if anything, prep the day before, cover and refrigerate.
Posts like this brgehtin up my day. Thanks for taking the time.