This recipe is branded as "The World's Best Party Dip." Proceed at your own risk.
The World's Best Party Dip is made with baked cream cheese, cheddar, crunchy water chestnuts, red pepper, green onions and then baked until bubbly and delicious. topped with buttery crackers, pepper jelly and bacon. This dip is addicting. It will be the hit of every party that you bring it to.
Ingredients2 8 ounce packages of cream cheese, softened
6 green onions sliced very thin, both the white and green parts + 3 green onions sliced for garnish
1 cup of mayonnaise
1 red bell pepper diced very finely
2 8 ounce cans of water chestnuts, drained and minced
1 teaspoon of onion powder
1 teaspoon of garlic powder
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1 teaspoon of celery salt
2 cups of sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 sleeve of butter round crackers (Ritz)
2 cups of cooked chopped bacon (or you can use real bacon bits)
1.5 to 2 cups of Pepper Jelly
Butter Crackers for serving
InstructionsAdd the cream cheese, mayo, 6 green onions, cheddar cheese, red pepper, water chestnuts and all the seasonings to a bowl, use a hand mixer and blend on medium/high for 2 minutes or until all the ingredients are well combined.
Spray a 9 x 12 casserole dish with non stick spray and spread your cream cheese mixture evenly across the dish.
Heat your oven to 375 degrees. *all ovens are different so adjust the time and temp to your oven.
Crush up the sleeve of crackers into smaller bits and pieces and sprinkle across the cream cheese mixture evenly.
Bake for about 35 minutes. All ovens are different so keep an eye on this the first time you make this. It is done when it is golden brown on top and bubbling up the sides.
While the cream cheese mixture bakes, add your pepper jelly to a small sauce pan and heat on low until it is a liquid like consistency. Whisk or stir it while it heats, make sure it doesn't burn.
When the cream cheese is baked and bubbly, pull it from the oven, while it is warm, pour the warm pepper jelly over the top evenly. I drizzle it back and forth.
Then top the whole dip with the crumbled, cooked bacon and finish this with adding the rest of the green onions.
Serve warm with the butter crackers.
