Best Ever Jalapeño Popper Dip - best party dip! (2024)

Recipe

Here’s a fabulous way to get all that cheesey jalapeno taste you love but without all the effort of stuffing each pepper, enter the Jalapeno popper dip! It’s a fabulous cheese dip appetizer that you can serve with keto chips, or celery sticks as a low carb option, or any other cracker you like.

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How to Make Jalapeno Popper Dip

First you’ll need to cook the bacon for the dip. I’ve found the very best way to do this is on a wire rack over a sheet pan, that way the bacon is not sitting in the grease and it gets good and crispy.

Place the bacon on the wire rack like you see in the photo below and bake in a hot oven at 375°F for about 20 – 25 minutes.

One it’s cooled a enough to handle you can dice it into small pieces. You don’t want huge chunks of bacon as it’s going into the dip and people will be scooping out small amounts at a time.

Then cut the jalapenos in half, deseed them and finely dice. I added three to my dip, it was not very spicy hot and my kids ate it without complaint. If you want more heat simply add one or two more jalapenos.

Next, measure out cream cheese, you need to make sure its at room temp or it will be pretty hard to mix it unless its soft.

A quick tip if your cheese is coming straight out of the fridge is to microwave it on the defrost setting for about 20 to 30 seconds, it will be soft enough to stir then.

Set aside a small amount of the cooked bacon, diced jalapenos, onions, and about a quarter cup each of the cheeses to sprinkle over the top of the dip before its baked.

Go ahead and add the softened cream cheese, parmesan, sharp cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, bacon bits, chopped onions, jalapenos, and garlic powder to the bowl (see photo below) and mix well to combine.

All that’s left to do now is to add the cheese dip mixture to an oven proof baking dish that’s about 1.5 quart in size.

Spread it out evenly and then sprinkle the remaining bacon, diced jalapenos, onions, and cheeses over the top and then put it on a sheet pan (incase any bubbles over the sides) and bake for about 20-25 min or until the top is a bit brown.

More Tips for Making Jalapeno Popper Dip

• Save Time – by using ready cooked bacon, you can buy it in most grocery stores these days and it works perfectly in this dip!
• More Heat! – if you want a little more kick to the recipe simply add one to two more seeded Jalapenos.
• Grate your own Cheese – ready shredded cheese has starch added to stop it clumping in the bag. This adds carbs, and it also can make the cheese much less melty than if you grate it yourself.
• Sharp Cheddar – has much more intense flavor than regular cheddar cheese and I think works much better in this recipe so it’s worth looking for.