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February is upon us and that means the Big Football game is just days away! I love game day food, don’t you? It is so fun to think up a menu that is fun and tasty to eat and fits well with the game. It’s also a great excuse to spend time with your family, enjoy the game and have some delicious food.
While doing some shopping at Walmart this week I realized that if I had some delicious RITZ Crackers and Coke Zero on hand it would be easy to throw together some great game day snacks. This year I wanted to create a recipe that was a little lighter and could incorporate some fresh fruit, so I came up with an easy chocolate cream dip recipe that pairs perfectly with fresh fruit and a RITZ Cracker. It has that wonderful sweet/salty flavor that I love.
For the Chocolate Cream Dip you will need:
1 box Instant Chocolate pudding (4-serving size)
1 cup cold milk
8 oz Neufchatel Cream Cheese (softened)
In a stand mixer mix together the milk and pudding mix. Mix until combined and thickened. Add the cream cheese. Mix until well blended. Serve on top of RITZ Crackers with your choice of sliced fresh fruit.
I love this recipe because you can use any flavor pudding mix you would like. I love chocolate with the fresh fruit. It is such a wonderful flavor, but strawberry pudding would work well too. For the fruit I used blackberries, sliced kiwi, sliced strawberries and sliced bananas.
After trying both the strawberry and chocolate dip I can’t decide which one is my favorite. The strawberry has a lighter flavor that also goes wonderful with the fruit and RITZ Crackers.
I splashed the banana slices with some lemon juice to keep them from browning. Arrange the fruit and RITZ Crackers on a platter and now you are ready to add the chocolate cream dip to your game day spread. I placed mine in a football shaped bowl and added cream cheese laces to it. Your guests can dip their RITZ Crackers into the dip, or spoon it on top of the cracker and add a slice of fresh fruit plus enjoy an ice cold Coke Zero as well.
I love that this recipe uses fresh fruit. In the middle of winter it is wonderful to see all the beautiful, vibrant colors of strawberries, kiwi, blackberries and bananas. It sure brightens my mood.
I hope you will enjoy this delicious chocolate cream dip with your family. I know we will! And I hope your team wins this game day!
For more great game day foods visit #ReadyForKickoff for inspiration and make sure to purchase your RITZ Crackers at Walmart! What is your favorite game day food to serve?
Ohhh this sounds good! I love fresh fruit, cream cheese, and chocolate so I bet I’d love this! Plus you can never go wrong with Coca-Cola and RITZ Crackers!!
football food is so much fun. Thanks for sharing
I NEED to make this! My kiddos will go wild for this chocolate dip and I always have RITZ on hand! Great recipe!!
I like how the dip looks like a football!
I never thought to put fruit on crackers!
The sweet/salty flavor is so good to me!
Oh now that would be a good treat.
Oh I bet that dip is so good! I would be tempted to eat it by the spoon full!
I can truthfully say it IS good by the spoonful!
Chocolate and fruit are great together, and the crackers are a yummy little plate tor each creation. Love your presentation!
This is so much fun! I think this will be great at any party- even if there’s no football. I love that you served it with crackers.
The crackers do make it really tasty.
What a tasty game day treat! I often forget the sweets, great reminder.
You have me at chocolate dip! What a delicious recipe and it looks so yummy. I love that you shaped it as a football.
Thanks, the football shape is so fun.
Oh my. That looks so good. I can imagine eating it with raspberries! My mouth is watering!
Yum! What a fun app idea!