Gingerbread Christmas Dip Recipe

A Christmas dip recipe made with cream cheese, whipped cream, brown sugar, molasses, and warm winter spices. Served with graham crackers, ginger biscuits, or homemade gingerbread cookies for dipping, it’s the best (and easiest!) gingerbread dip for holiday entertaining!

Why Make This Gingerbread Christmas Dip Recipe?

When the festive period comes around, I look forward to anything and everything gingerbread. In addition to decorating gingerbread houses (or more elaborate gingerbread creations!) I enjoy making gingerbread cookies, gingerbread hot chocolate, and gingerbread simmer pots to fill my home with the scents of the season.

This gingerbread dip is an easy way to enjoy the same scents and spices without the need for an oven or stovetop. Made with whipped cream, cream cheese, brown sugar, and molasses, plus a mix of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, I like to serve this dip with cinnamon graham crackers or homemade gingersnaps, plus plenty of colorful sprinkles. It’s easy to prepare, make a great addition to holiday snack boards and dessert tables, and tastes just like Christmas in a bowl.

Christmas Dip Ingredients

To make this gingerbread Christmas dip recipe, you’ll need the following:

• Whipping Cream – Or heavy cream. Look for a fat percentage around 35-36%. Do not use whipped topping.
• Full Fat Cream Cheese – Allow plenty of time for the cream cheese to soften, or you’ll find it difficult to blend it with the other ingredients.
• Brown Sugar – You can make this recipe with light brown sugar, or dark brown sugar for deeper notes of caramel and molasses.
• Confectioner’s Sugar – Confectioner’s sugar (icing sugar, powdered sugar, 10x sugar) adds sweetness and texture.

• Molasses – Along with a blend of spices, molasses gives this dip its classic “gingerbread” taste. Do not use blackstrap molasses. And if you cannot find molasses, you can substitute black treacle instead.
• Vanilla Bean Paste – I recommend vanilla bean paste from Nielsen-Massey, Simply Organic, or Taylor & Colledge. If you can’t find vanilla bean paste, a good vanilla extract will also work just fine.
• Spices – You’ll need ground ginger, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground cloves, ground allspice, and kosher salt to create the gingerbread flavor.
• Garnishes – Such as homemade or store bought Christmas sprinkles. For other suggestions, see my notes below.

Ideas for Garnishing and Serving Gingerbread Dip

To garnish: Top your dip with homemade or store bought Christmas sprinkles; homemade or store bought gingerbread cookies (the cookies in the photos are Walker’s Shortbread Gingerbread Men) or crushed gingersnaps; bits of homemade candied ginger; a dusting of ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, or mixed spice; or a scattering of chopped walnuts.

Serving accompaniments: For dipping, I suggest cookies such as ginger snaps, digestive biscuits, Nilla wafers, cinnamon graham crackers, or Lotus Biscoff; miniature pretzels; or fresh fruit like apple or pear slices, blackberries, or strawberries.

I also love the idea of serving this dip as part of a platter or charcuterie board. Fill a big, pretty bowl with gingerbread dip, then surround it with gingerbread cookies; an assortment of fresh and dried fruit; bowls of candied nuts; chocolate truffles; candied ginger and candied orange peels; and sugared cranberries and sprigs of sugared rosemary to garnish.

Make-Ahead and Storage Suggestions

Plan ahead! This dip tastes best if allowed to rest in the fridge for 2-3 hours prior to serving.

Store gingerbread dip in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Other gingerbread recipes you might enjoy:

Gingerbread Hot Chocolate
Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread Christmas Simmer Pot
Gingerbread Wreath

And if you do make these, or any of my recipes, don’t forget to tag me @bastecutfold or use the hashtag #bastecutfold on Instagram. I always love to see what you’re making!

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