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Hot Chocolate Dip

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Craving a quick and easy sweet treat? This creamy 3 ingredient hot chocolate dip comes together in just a few minutes – and will disappear just as quickly as you made it! Just like our festive milk chocolate peppermint bark recipe, too.

Hot chocolate dip with mini marshmallows and chocolate chips.

Dessert dips are our new favorite treat, especially for the holiday season. Made with cream cheese, hot chocolate mix, and marshmallow fluff, this hot chocolate dip is creamy, decadent, and chocolatey! Perfect for enjoying with friends and family this winter on a snowy day.

What This Recipe Entails

It’s so easy to make hot chocolate dip. All you have to do is let the cream cheese soften first, then mix everything together and serve.

  • Softening time: 30 minutes
  • Prep time: 5 minutes

Hot Chocolate Dip Ingredients

You can make hot chocolate dip with just 3 ingredients:

  • Cream cheese – Make sure to soften it at room temperature for at least 30 minutes.
  • Marshmallow creme – We recommend using Fluff for the best creamy texture.
  • Hot chocolate mix – Any packet of your favorite hot chocolate will do! We love using Swiss Miss milk chocolate for this recipe.

We love to garnish this dip with mini marshmallows and mini chocolate chips so it looks like a mug of hot chocolate! You can also get creative and add toppings like crushed candy canes or sprinkles if you’d like.

Hot chocolate dip with graham crackers.

How To Make Hot Chocolate Dip

Make hot chocolate dip in just 5 minutes with one bowl and a hand mixer:

  1. Add all the ingredients to a mixing bowl and whip with a hand mixer.
  2. Scrape the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed. Continue to mix until it’s smooth and creamy.
  3. Transfer the dip to a serving dish, garnish, and serve!

Storing: You can store hot chocolate dip in the fridge for up to 5 days. Although we can’t promise you won’t eat it all before then 🙂

Serving Suggestions

Hot chocolate dip is best enjoyed with tasty treats for dipping! Here are some suggestions:

  • Graham crackers
  • Pretzels
  • Biscoff cookies
  • Mini chocolate chip cookies

We can also highly recommend enjoying a toasty mug of hot chocolate alongside this dip. It’s the perfect sweet treat after a day spent playing in the snow!

A graham cracker dipping into hot chocolate dip.

Expert Tips

  • You can make hot chocolate dip ahead of time and keep it in the fridge until you’re ready to serve it (so easy to prep for Christmas parties!)
  • If you forgot to soften the cream cheese at room temp, microwave it for about 10-15 seconds
  • Start mixing on the lowest speed to prevent the hot chocolate mix from spraying up out of the bowl
  • You can use a stand mixer for this recipe, but it will work best with larger batches

Try our hot chocolate dip recipe and let us know what you think by rating, commenting, and sharing below. Enjoy!

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We hope you enjoy this recipe! When you try it out, please leave a review and a star rating in the comments below. Happy cooking! – Nicole and Alex

Hot chocolate dip with graham crackers.

Hot Chocolate Dip

Nicole & Alex Langdon
Craving a quick and easy sweet treat? This creamy 3 ingredient hot chocolate dip comes together in just a few minutes – and will disappear just as quickly as you made it!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Course Dessert, Dip
Cuisine American
Servings 2 servings
Calories 374 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
 
 

  • 4 ounces cream cheese softened
  • ½ cup marshmallow fluff
  • 39 grams hot chocolate mix
  • Mini marshmallows
  • Mini chocolate chips
  • Graham crackers

Instructions
 

  • Add the cream cheese, marshmallow fluff, and hot chocolate mix to a medium mixing bowl. Whip with a hand mixer until smooth and creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl as needed.
  • Transfer to a serving dish and top with mini marshmallows and mini chocolate chips. Serve with graham crackers for dipping.
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Notes

Cream cheese: Make sure to get the cream cheese out of the fridge about 30 minutes before making this dip. It needs to soften so that it mixes easily.
Garnishes: We like to top this dip with mini marshmallows and chocolate chips to make it look like a mug of hot chocolate. But you can also get creative and use any sweet toppings here, like crushed candy canes or even whipped cream!
Serving suggestions: This dip goes best with graham crackers, but you can also use pretzels, cookies, and other snacks to dip. Check out our blog post above for a detailed list.
Make ahead: You can store hot chocolate dip in the fridge for up to 5 days, so it’s great for making ahead of time for holiday parties! Make sure to leave garnishes out until you’re ready to serve it.
 

Nutrition

Serving: 1servingCalories: 374kcalCarbohydrates: 45gProtein: 4gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 57mgSodium: 344mgPotassium: 75mgFiber: 1gSugar: 33gVitamin A: 764IUCalcium: 75mgIron: 0.4mg
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90% of Nicole’s thoughts are about food. She’s had a passion for cooking (and eating) for as long as she can remember! Growing up, she started cooking with her mom at a young age, learned family recipes from her Italian grandmother, took every opportunity to make cookies (so many bake sales), and always loved going out to restaurants to try new foods.

Nicole currently works part-time as a marketing professional for OmieLife while also working nonstop on The Candid Cooks. As a former mechanical engineer, Nicole has consistently found herself at the intersection of creativity and logical reasoning. She credits not only her passion for photography, design, and writing, but also her problem-solving nature and desire to learn, as the foundation on which The Candid Cooks was built.

Nicole’s hobbies include anything that gets her moving - mainly hiking, skiing, ice skating, and dancing - as well as reading fantasy novels and scrapbooking. Her favorite food is a big plate of nachos, as long as they’re cheesy enough!

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2 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    MAKE THIS you will not regret it 😋 Always easy and delicious recipes from the candid cooks, and this one is no different! I’m a chocoholic so I added ~1.5x the cocoa mix. Also I don’t have a stand mixer and it still came together perfectly, so don’t let that stop you! ☕️

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