Hot Pizza Dip: Full Loaf Style
Hot Pizza Dip – Full Loaf Style is a tempting appetizer or meal made with cream cheese and pepperoni. This hot dip is a crowd pleaser for any occasion. Add your favorite toppings to take it up a notch!
Hot Pizza Dip is a creamy, easy dip perfect as an appetizer or as a main course. Cook and serve it in a loaf of bread for a fun rip-apart time!
Love mushrooms?
Add them! Onions, peppers, hot peppers, even pineapple (!?!?) will find themselves at home on this easy dip. Sub in sausage or ham for the pepperoni for a twist. Anything pizza can do, pizza dip can do better. Extreme Pizza Dip? Absolutely!
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Start with an unsliced loaf of bread. You can use pretty much any kind you like, but the Italian bread is BIG, it’s easy to find, and it’s pretty cheap. A round loaf would be pretty too.
Use a small serrated knife to cut the top off of the loaf. (Affiliate links follow, see disclaimer page for details.)
Then cut the top into bitesize chunks, and hollow out the bread. Cut those pieces into bitesize chunks as well.
Combine the softened cream cheese, mayo, five ounces of the pepperoni (cut in chunks), seasonings, and one cup of the mozzarella in a bowl. I normally forget to allow the cream cheese to come to room temp, so I use a microwave safe bowl and heat the cream cheese on high for 45 seconds to a minute before I add in the other ingredients.
Spread the cream cheese mixture into the hollowed out loaf, and put the whole kit and caboodle on a sheet pan that you have sprayed well with cooking spray.
Spread the marinara over the dip. Then sprinkle on the other cup of mozzarella, and top with the remaining pepperoni.
Bake until the dip is bubbly, the bread is browned slightly and the pepperoni is crispy, about twenty minutes.
Serve immediately. We use a wooden chopping board and supply a serrated knife – when the cubed bread is gone, encourage tearing into the loaf to eat every single bite. You can also cut it into neat pieces, which is not nearly as much fun, but it is a lot neater.
Hot Pizza Dip – Full Loaf Style
Ingredients
- 8 ounce brick Cream Cheese, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup Mayonnaise
- 1 tsp Italian Seasoning
- 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder
- Red Pepper Flakes to taste
- 6 ounces Sliced Pepperoni, divided
- 2 cups Grated Mozzarella Cheese, divided
- 1/2 cup Marinara Sauce
- 1 loaf Italian Bread or similar, unsliced
- Cooking Spray
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Cut top of loaf of bread off, and hollow out inside. Cut top and hollowed out pieces into bite size chunks.
- Chop five ounces of the sliced pepperoni into smaller pieces to incorporate them better throughout the dip and make it easier to eat. Combine cream cheese, mayo, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, red pepper flakes, one cup of grated mozzarella and the five ounces of chopped pepperoni in a bowl.
- Spread cream cheese mixture into hollowed out bottom of bread loaf. Smooth evenly.
- Spread marinara sauce on top of cream cheese mixture evenly. Sprinkle with remaining one cup mozzarella and top with a single layer of remaining pepperoni.
- Place filled bread bowl and bite size chunks of bread onto a well sprayed baking sheet.
- Bake Pizza Dip until hot and bubbly, about 20 minutes. Pepperoni and bread should be crispy and browned. Serve immediately.
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