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Jalapeno Popper Dip

Name: Jalapeno Popper Dip
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature; 1 cup sour cream; 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese; ¾ cup Parmesan cheese (hold back a couple tablespoons to sprinkle on dip before baking); 4 large jalapenos, roasted, skinned, seeded and diced; 6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled; Toasted baguette slices, to serve.

posted by Liz Berg on April 5, 2016 (updated 1/6/26)

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I served two amazing cheesy dips at my most recent book club gathering. This Jalapeno Popper Dip was a definite winner!

A gooey, cheesy, spicy appetizer with all the magnificent flavors of jalapeno poppers without all the work! Add this Jalapeno Popper Dip with Bacon to your next game day gathering.

Jalapeno Popper Dip a white ceramic loaf pan

Why You Must Make

My book club has high expectations when they come to my house for a meeting. All my book club friends are terrific cooks and hostesses. No one ever goes away hungry after one of our gatherings.

But I have a reputation to uphold. And I do so gladly. The trouble with being a food blogger is that you have to take decent photos of your food in order to share on one’s blog. And when you’re cooking all day, trying to make the house presentable and then quickly taking photos of the appetizers as they come out of the oven, you often fail to get that “money shot.”

But when chatting with one of my book club friends a couple of weeks later, she referred to this jalapeno popper dip and my crab dip as the two best dips she’s ever eaten. And this is my talented friend who makes exquisite jams and jellies and is not lacking in culinary skills one bit. So quite the compliment! I knew I’d add them to my queue.
This dip is much easier to make than jalapeno poppers, which require stuffing individual jalapenos with filling before baking.
This dip isn’t as spicy as you might expect since the cream cheese and cheese, along with cooking the jalapenos, decrease their heat a bit. Bill still kept his distance, though!

Recipe Tips

First up is the jalapeno popper recipe. I took some cues from other recipes on the web, roasted my own jalapenos, and added chopped bacon. I could have made a meal out of this.
Instead of stuffing individual jalapeno halves with filling and wrapping with bacon, this is an easier version of the traditional jalapeno popper recipe!
Bill thought it was terrific until the heat of the peppers hit his taste buds. I thought it had the perfect spicy kick. So you may need to adjust the jalapenos depending on who you are serving.
But he had nothing but praise for the crab dip and fixed himself a little starter after work with the leftovers.

I spotted a recipe on the McCormick website that was superb. Chunks of lump crab meat were mixed with cream cheese, mayonnaise, shredded cheddar, and seasoned with Old Bay, and dried mustard, and mingled together famously. I added diced red bell pepper for color, but otherwise kept to this scrumptious Cheesy Crab Dip recipe.