Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip – A Crunchy Cheese Dip
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Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip is a crunchy cheese dip filled with pecans, water chestnuts and pineapple, the perfect topping for your favorite crackers.
This cold dip has the flavors of your favorite cheese ball but you just have to mix the ingredients all together and serve in a bowl. You do not have to worry about forming it into a ball and rolling it in nuts!
Our entire family including my parents, sisters and their families (a grand total of 18 of us) went away for a long weekend to Hocking Hills, Ohio. We rented a huge, three-story house where we ping ponged, hiked, played cards, went boating, and ate ate ate the days away. We had a great time.
It was the perfect time to try our some new snacky recipes that I had been saving, and this Crunchy Cheese Dip was one of those recipes.
This deconstructed cheese ball is made with cream cheese and packed with tasty ingredients. We smeared in on a variety of crackers but pretzels would have also been a winner too.
Ingredients for Cream Cheese Dip For Crackers
- Cream Cheese, softened
- Pineapple Tidbits, drained with 1 tablespoon juices reserved
- Water Chestnuts, drained and chopped
- Pecans, chopped
- Fresh Chives, chopped
- Seasoned Salt
- Ground Black Pepper
- Fresh Chopped Parsley (optional)
Water Chestnut Dip
I’ve been on a roll using recipes from this vintage cook book from the Waynesburg Christian Church, including this Crunchy Cheese Dip as it is called in that book.
What drew me into this particular cold cream cheese dip was the water chestnuts. I love how water chestnuts give a recipe a good crunch without a bunch of flavor. It’s one of the ingredients in my Crunchy Chicken Casserole. Check out these Crock Pot Lettuce Wraps with water chestnuts from Recipes that Crock.
How to Make Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip:
For the full ingredient amounts and recipe instructions for pineapple cream cheese dip, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Cream softened cream cheese until smooth.
- Mix in pineapple tidbits, chopped water chestnuts, chopped pecans, chives, seasoned salt, black pepper and reserved pineapple juice until fully incorporated.
- Cover and chill in the refrigerator.
- Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired (optional).
- Serve smeared on crackers or pretzels.
Notes About Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip – A Crunchy Cheese Dip
- Be sure to soften the cream cheese before making this dip. Failing to do this step will result in lumps in your water chestnut dip.
- Keep 1 tablespoon of pineapple juice drained off of the tidbits to add to the cream cheese dip.
- I had a hard time finding an 8 ounce can of pineapple tidbits, so I bought a bigger can and only used as much as I needed. Give it the best guess on how much 8 ounces is, and then eat the rest of it as a snack with cottage cheese.
- Don’t throw away the rest of the pineapple juice drained from the tidbits. Instead, make an Amaretto Pina Colada.
- Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired.
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Cream Cheese Dip for Crackers
What can you mix with cream cheese?
Cream cheese is the perfect vessel for any type of dip since it is relatively flavorless and will pick up the flavors and textures of the other ingredients. Here’s a list of easy cream cheese additions to make your own easy dip.
- Fresh herbs such as chives, parsley, or dill
- Canned seafood such as tuna, salmon or shrimp
- Fresh diced onions, garlic or scallions
- Chopped nuts such as pecans or walnuts
- Dried seasoning blends including taco, ranch or Italian seasonings
- Chipped beef (dried beef)
- Everything bagel seasoning
- Jalapenos (canned or fresh)
- Jam or jelly (any flavor)
- Drained, canned pineapple
- Bacon bits
- Canned pie fillings
- Cranberry sauce
Cold Cream Cheese Dips
The Best Crab Dip (with shrimp)
Hot Cream Cheese Dips
Crock Pot Queso (with cream cheese)
Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip – A Crunchy Cheese Dip
Ingredients
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 8 ounces pineapple tidbits, drained with 1 Tablespoon juice reserved
- 8 ounces water chestnuts, drained and chopped
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 3 Tablespoons chopped chives
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- fresh chopped parsley (optional)
Instructions
- Cream softened cream cheese until smooth.
- Add pineapple, water chestnuts, chives, seasoned salt, pepper and reserved vegetable juice and mix until combined.
- Cover and chill before serving. Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired (optional).
- Serve with crackers or pretzels.
Notes
- Be sure to soften the cream cheese before making this dip. Failing to do this step will result in lumps in your water chestnut dip.
- Keep 1 tablespoon of pineapple juice drained off of the tidbits to add to the cream cheese dip.
- I had a hard time finding an 8 ounce can of pineapple tidbits, so I bought a bigger can and only used as much as I needed. Give it the best guess on how much 8 ounces is, and then eat the rest of it as a snack with cottage cheese.
- Don’t throw away the rest of the pineapple juice drained from the tidbits. Instead, make an Amaretto Pina Colada.
- Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired.
- The carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information below are auto-calculated and can vary depending on the products used. They should not be used for specific dietary needs.
Nutrition
