Summer has the sweetest berries. Make the berries even more special by dipping the fruit in our easy cream cheese fruit dip recipe.
It only takes a couple of minutes, just a few ingredients and you’ll have the best cream cheese fruit dip you have ever tasted.
How To Make Cream Cheese Fruit Dip
Oh so simple to make. This healthy, easy cream cheese fruit dip is only 4 ingredients. Use a fork to mix whipped cream cheese with heavy cream, vanilla and powdered sugar. You’re done! It’s really that easy!
What To Serve With Cream Cheese Fruit Dip Recipe
Fruit and fresh summer berries are the most obvious choice for this dip, but it tastes great with other food too, ones you may never have thought of.
Strawberries are my favorite with this easy dip. The dip also pairs well with banana slices, grapes, cantaloupe, apple slices or pineapple. You can add the cream cheese fruit dip to the center of raspberries for a yummy dessert or elegant appetizer.
Fill the hole in raspberries with the sweetened cream cheese dip.
Or use it as a filling for Banana Whoopie Pies (add link), in
Healthy Banana Muffins (Mini or Regular), mix into
Mini Pancakes with Cream Cheese Dip (add link) or spread on top of pancakes.
Serve with grilled or fried chicken fingers for a fun dipping sauce. This capitalizes on the current obsession with chicken and waffles that has a sweet and savory aspect to it.
Spread the fruit dip on a slice of banana bread. Yum!
Substitutions For Cream Cheese Fruit Dip
Cream Cheese – I like to buy the whipped cream cheese for this fruit dip, that way it mixes well with a fork and I don’t need to get out the hand mixer. If you buy the regular block of cream cheese, then using an electric mixer will help make the dip creamier. Using a fork to mix regular cream cheese will work, the dip will just be a little thicker.
You can also lighten up this cream cheese dip by using Neufchatel, or mascarpone cheese.
Vanilla Extract – Vanilla is an optional ingredient, if not using you’ll lose that special taste that only vanilla extract can add, so personally I like to use it.
Heavy Cream – The heavy cream adds the richest taste to this dip, but if you don’t have any on hand you can substitute half & half or regular milk.
Powdered Sugar – Out of powdered sugar? You can always take regular granulated sugar and make your own powdered sugar. Add granulated sugar to a blender or food processor and mix until light and fluffy.
Easy Cream Cheese Fruit Dip
This easy cream cheese fruit dip is great for strawberries, bananas and pineapple. It also is adds a sweet note to chicken fingers. Versatile in all ways!
Ingredients
- 4 ounces whipped cream cheese
- 1/4 cup heavy cream or 1/2 & 1/2 or milk
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar sifted for smoother dip
Instructions
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Mix cream cheese, heavy cream and vanilla with a fork.
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Sift the powdered sugar (sifting is optional). Slowly add the sifted powdered sugar to the other ingredients until smooth.
Recipe Notes
Notes:
See post for ingredient substitutions.
If you don’t have whipped cream cheese then you can use a regular block of cream cheese, you may want to use an electric mixer to get the job done quicker.
Sifting the powdered sugar is an optional step, it will yield a smoother consistency.
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I made this with 1/2 a block of regular cream cheese that I whipped with my hand mixer, Kept recipe the same, except cut the cream (I used 1/2 and 1/2) in half for a bit of a thicker consistency. Mixed the whole thing with my hand mixer (although next time I think I will try using the pre-whipped cream cheese and doing it all by hand to get the same effect as in the pics on this page). Resulted in a creamy, thick, perfectly sweetened fruit dip that we ate with some leftover pineapple. My family went NUTS over it! They said it was better than any fruit dip that they ever had before. The whole thing took maybe 5 minutes to make. Definitely a keeper!
Jenny so glad your family liked the fruit dip. And thanks for giving feedback for more ways to make it!