Are you looking for game day dip recipes? Try out these 25 amazing game day dips that are seriously good and easy to make!
Dips have a way of bringing people together. They’re easy to set out, endlessly adaptable, and just as welcome with chips as they are with vegetables or bread. On game day, a good dip can be the centerpiece of the spread—something familiar, something new, or a bit of both. This collection offers a range of ideas, from creamy classics to fresh twists, each one simple enough to share and flexible enough to make your own.
1. Slow Cooker Queso Dip
This is our crowd-pleaser queso dip that we make in the slow cooker. I can’t get enough of this delicious recipe and it only takes me 5 minutes to prep it. I love it because the slow cooker does all of the work so you can get ready for the game.
2. Easy White Bean Dip
As is, this is a perfectly good and garlicky homemade dip, but you can personalize this to make it a lemony Greek or zesty tex-mex. The beauty of using cans of beans you have sitting around in your pantry can’t be overstated.
3. Smoked Cream Cheese Dip
Get that luscious smoky flavor without waiting on a wood smoker to do the trick. Our recipe gets you in the right direction with some liquid smoke and a few seasonings. Add pretzel sticks and a few sturdy veg on the side, and you’re good.
4. Beer Cheese Dip
Beer cheese dip is a popular appetizer in the United States, especially in the Midwest. The combination of creamy cheese and the hoppy flavor of beer creates a unique and layered flavor. Serve it chilled or room temp with crackers, pretzels, or bread chunks for a delicious and easy snack.
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5. Tangy Dill Pickle Dip
Oh, yeah. Pickle fanatics, roll out! This one starts with a simple ranch seasoning, dill pickles, and diced ham. A unique winner of a game day dip!
6. 7-Layer Dip Cups
Sometimes the best dips are the personal, individual kind—double dip all you want and then some. No need to stand by the vat of your favorite dip all night; take it along with you closer to the open bar with this tex-mex little number.
7. Pumpkin Fluff Dip
It’s good to have a sweet dip in there somewhere, isn’t it? Get your sweet tooth on with an option like this particularly good Pumpkin Fluff Dip that not only makes cookies really shine, but you can add this fluff to two cookies and freeze for a nice little frozen treat.
8. Chocolate Hummus
This one is not TOO sweet, but it’s definitely not savory. Just different enough to have people talking. Add slices of apple, graham crackers and speculoos cookies, and you’ll have their attention.
9. Thick & Clingy Blue Cheese Dip
I’m a huge fan of this blue cheese dip, if I do say so myself. Probably because I need sturdy flavorful crackers (think of those artisan style flatbreads with seeds and nuts in them that are so popular at Aldi’s around the holidays). Add cucumber wheels, pretzel rods, hearty crackers, and a whole platter of chicken wings around this bad boy.
10. Hot Buffalo Chicken Dip
By “hot” I mean warmed in the crock, but buffalo sauce does tend toward that spicy heat too. This one is as decadent as they come: thick, rich, saucy. Grab naan rounds, tortilla chips, Fritos, spoons, tiki torches, shovels, your hands, bring it all, and some wet naps and bibs for cleanup.
11. Classic Spinach Artichoke
This recipe just hollers for a handful of Triscuits, carrot sticks, slathered on a melba toast, or eaten warm right from the spoon.
12. Spicy Hummus
I just finished updating the recipe and clearing up some of the instructions on this one. You don’t HAVE to remove the skins from the chickpeas first but it helps create a suppperrrr creamy hummus. Leave out the cayenne if you want, but it adds a nice kick.
13. Spring Onion Dip
I made this for a snack spread when company was coming. It’s Justine Doiron’s Spring Onion recipe, made with crispy fried onions, and it was so delicious. It’s a little spicy, crisp, tangy, and so fresh. If you love onion dip, you are about to have a new fave. I didn’t have spring onion, so I used a combination of shallots, scallions, leeks and yellow onion.
14. Raw, Vegan Salsa
So the raw vegan part of Renee’s fresh-tasting salsa was kind of by accident. It’s a quick blend of tomatoes, purple onion, fresh garlic, cilantro, lime and salt, and we ate it right out of the blender, without chilling or anything. (But it’s better the next day.)
Want to try a copycat Chipotle Salsa? Here’s their corn version.
15. 5-Minute Crack Dip
We are crushing this dip game from dips with few ingredients to cold dips that can be made in a few minutes, and we are crushing this dip game! This interesting recipe mixes yellow and white cheddar cheese, red onion, mayo, mustard, horseradish, and pimiento. Chill for an hour and serve with a sturdy cracker!
16. Apple Pie Dip
Apple Pie Dip with cinnamon sugar chips is the sweet, spiced snack you didn’t know your football food table needed. Easy to make, impossible to stop eating.
17. 3-Ingredient Crock Pot Chili Cheese Dip
I was so surprised when this came out good. It’s the simple things in life that make me happy, and while you could doctor this up with fresh shreds or tomatoes, etc. this combination of Velveeta, Rotel, and a can of chili is just fine for game day.
18. Fresh Mango Salsa Dip
If you are looking for a bright, beautiful and fruity salsa as a game day dip, then this recipe is for you. Make it as spicy as you can stand (my preferred setting is 0 to 1 on the mild scale).
19. Cowboy Caviar
Maybe more a salad or bean & corn side dish, but if you can stick a chip in it, I’m calling it a dip. A lively combo of healthy beans and veg to create a tasteful dip that sticks to your ribs. Great with sturdy tortilla chips.
The bottom line
Hot, chilled or room temp, football food wouldn’t be the same without a selection of dips for all your favorite vegetables and crackers. Hope you found one here you love!
