Sugar cookie dip is a creamy, fluffy dessert dip made with cream cheese, Cool Whip, and real crumbled sugar cookies. Easy dessert that takes just 5 minutes to make and can be customized with colorful sprinkles for birthdays, Christmas parties, and any special occasion.
Serve with fruit, pretzels, and cut-out sugar cookies or soft gingerbread cookies.
❤️Sugar Cookie Dip At a Glance
- Simple ingredients. Cream cheese, butter, sugar cookies, extracts, powdered sugar, Cool Whip, sprinkles
- Takes 5 minutes. Mix everything together, chill, and serve.
- Made with real sugar cookies. Crumbled cookies are mixed right into the creamy dip.
- Easy to customize. Use Lofthouse cookies, vanilla wafers, Golden Oreos, or your favorite sugar cookies, and any color of sprinkles for Christmas, birthdays, showers, and game day
Question for ya. Do you think sugar cookie dip is a dip with sugar cookies in it or a dip for sugar cookies? Whatever you guessed, you're right!
I loaded up this creamy cheesecake dip with real sugar cookies and just enough vanilla extract and butter to give it that irresistible sugar cookie dough flavor.
I've made this with Lofthouse cookies (those soft frosted sugar cookies from the grocery store) Nilla Wafers, and Golden Oreos. And, come Christmas time, you better believe I'm throwing in some of my grandma's sugar cookies and topping it off with Christmas holiday sprinkles.
🍪Ingredients You'll Need
Please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post for the full list of ingredients.
- Cream cheese. Let the cream cheese sit at room temperature until softened so it blends into a smooth, creamy dip without lumps.
- Butter. Because sugar cookie dough tastes like ... BUTTER!
- Crumbled sugar cookies. Use any kind of sugar or vanilla cookie like Lofthouse frosted cookies, Nilla Wafers, Golden Oreos, or your favorite sugar cookies. If you use frosted cookies, you can leave the frosting on or scrape it off.
- Almond extract. A little bit goes a long way, just ¼ teaspoon is enough to add a little background flavor.
- Cool Whip. I use Cool Whip or Truwhip. I haven't tried it with whipped cream, but I think the cream cheese and powdered sugar should help stabilize it so it doesn't get weepy.
- Sprinkles. Use jimmies, the tube-shaped ones, not nonpareils, which are more likely to bleed.
✨Make It Your Own
- Different flavors of cookies. Mix in gingerbread cookies or Biscoff cookies for a an easy Christmas cookie dip recipe, Nutter Butters for a yummy peanut butter cookie dip, lemon cookies for spring, snickerdoodles for fall, or Oreos for a cookies-and-cream version.
- Toppings & mix-ins. Stir in or top the sugar cookie dip with any color of sprinkles to go with the holiday or occasion. Or try toasted coconut, chopped nuts, chocolate chips, crushed cookies or pretzels, candies, or fruit.
🥣How to Make Sugar Cookie Dip
Step 1: Whip cream cheese and butter with a stand or hand mixer until creamy. Mix in powdered sugar and extracts, then the crumbled cookies. Fold in Cool Whip.
Step 2: Transfer to a serving bowl and sprinkle jimmies or more crushed cookies on top of the dip. Serve with your favorite fruit, cookies, and other dippers.
👉Top Tip
Stir in the Cool Whip instead of mixing it with an electric mixer. Overmixing whipped topping can make it watery.
☑️Tips
- Sugar cookie dip gets pretty firm when chilled. It will soften after sitting out for a few minutes.
- For sprinkles that won't bleed, use jimmies -- the long, tube-shaped ones. I like Betty Crocker's.
🎁Storage
Store leftover cookie dip in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days.
🎆What to Serve with Sugar Cookie Dip
For dipping: Serve with vanilla wafers, graham crackers, pretzels, strawberries, apple slices, or your favorite sugar cookies. A mix of sweet and salty dippers makes a fun dessert tray.
For a party spread: Add it to a dessert board with cookies, brownies, fresh fruit, and other bite-size treats. Change the sprinkle colors to match birthdays, showers, Christmas, or any holiday.
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📖 Recipe
Easy Sugar Cookie Dip
Ingredients
- 8 ounces softened cream cheese
- ¼ cup softened butter
- 1 cup crumbled vanilla or sugar cookies such as Lofthouse, vanilla wafers, or Golden Oreos
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups Cool Whip
- colored jimmies
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, mix cream cheese and butter with a hand or stand mixer until soft and creamy. Add powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and almond extract, and mix until smooth. Mix in the cookie crumbs. With a spatula, fold in the Cool Whip until combined.
- Spoon sugar cookie dip into a serving bowl. Top with jimmies, cover with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Serve with pretzels, cookies, and fruit.
Notes
- If using Oreos or Lofthouse cookies, you can leave the frosting on or scrape it off.
- To avoid the sprinkles from bleeding, use "jimmies," the long, tubular-shaped sprinkles, not nonpareils.
- Mix in a different flavor of cookies like Biscoff, Nutter Butters, snickerdoodles, or Oreos!
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