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Skillet Dip Snowman – Christmas Appetizer

December 19, 2020 This post may contain affiliate links.

Warm the hearts and fill the bellies of your family by serving a festive Christmas appetizer. When you pull this Skillet Dip Snowman out of the oven everyone will “ooh” and “ahh,” before ripping off pieces of salty bread so they can scoop up the creamy chicken dip in the middle.

skillet dip snowman with bread puffs surrounding hot chicken dip decorated with black olives and a carrot nose

Making cute Christmas appetizers can really enhance your guest’s experience, but I know many of you just don’t have a lot of time to devote to creating complicated edible crafts.

Well, this recipe is for you.

The hot chicken dip surrounded by a ring of salty dinner rolls can be whipped up in about 15 minutes, popped into the oven while you get ready for your guests to arrive, and decorated in a snap before they do.

NOTE: This holiday appetizer recipe was originally written and published at Christmastime in 2015. I realize many of my readers will not be celebrating the holidays with party guests in 2020, but I wanted to update this Christmas themed appetizer recipe because it makes a wonderful snack or meal to share with your immediate family.

Be sure to check out all my fun Christmas Recipes!

Christmas appetizer decorated like a cute snowman

To keep this recipe super simple, I used store-bought bread dough and a 5-ingredient chicken dip, then decorated it using a carrot and some black olives.

Being snowmen are white, I needed a dip that was white too.

Fortunately, my family’s favorite dip worked perfectly. It’s a hot chicken dip that’s simply made by blending together shredded chicken breast, cream cheese, Miracle Whip, lemon juice, and Worcestershire sauce.

Use Pillsbury French Bread to create a skillet dip snowman. See how at HungryHappenings.com.

Arrange bread dough in skillet.

  • You must use a 10-inch oven-safe non-stick skillet to make this dip. The handle of the skillet must be able to withstand high heat.
  • To make the ring of salty bread, simply cut a tube of French Bread dough into 12 equal pieces.
  • Roll the pieces into balls, pinching the seams together as needed then arrange them around the edge of the pan.

What else can I use?

  • You can use a homemade pizza crust recipe instead if you prefer the flavor of homemade bread. Just roll the dough into balls and arrange them in the skillet. You can ever stuff some cheese inside the pizza crust if you like.
  • You can also use store-bought tubes of pizza dough. It’s basically the same thing as the French Bread in a tube.
  • If you have frozen dinner roll dough you can use that as well.

Grab your skillet to make this super simple Christmas appetizer. See how to create a Skillet Dip Snowman at HungryHappenings.com.

Chicken Dip

  • Spoon the chicken dip in the center of the skillet and spread out so it touches the bread dough.
  • Bake it until the bread is baked through for about 32-38 minutes.
  • The dip will be slightly browned when you remove it from the oven. I wanted my dip to look white, so I stirred it up so that the browned bits get mixed in.

Decorate the Christmas Dip

  • To decorate the snowman you’ll need two whole extra-large olives, one small tip of a carrot for the nose, and 7 small round pieces of olive for the snowman’s smile. You can cut the olives using a round plunger cutter or simply slice off round pieces from the sides of the olives.
  • Add the decorations to the top of the dip and serve while it’s hot.

Line a skillet with cheese filled pizza dough balls and add a cheesy pizza dip in the center.

If you prefer you could make this fun Christmas appetizer using a skillet pizza dip. Just be sure to top it with lots of Mozzarella cheese.

VIDEO

Be sure to watch the video to see how easy it is to create this cute Christmas appetizer.

 

Printable Recipe

Warm up with winter with a skillet full of hot chicken dip surrounded by hot rolls. Scoop up the dip with the bread and enjoy. See the tutorial at Hungry Happenings.
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Christmas Appetizer - Skillet Dip Snowman
Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
38 mins
Total Time
1 hr 3 mins
 

Creamy chicken dip surrounded by puffs of French bread decorated with olives and a carrot to look like a cute snowman. This Skillet Dip Snowman is the perfect appetizer for any Christmas party.

Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Keyword: christmas desserts, skillet dip snowman, snowman themed food
Servings: 12
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • SKILLET DIP SNOWMAN
  • 1 tube Pillsbury French Bread dough or 11-14 ounces of your favorite bread dough
  • 1 tablespoon melted butter
  • sea salt or kosher salt
Chicken Dip
  • 8 ounces cream cheese softened
  • 1 cup Miracle Whip
  • 12 ounces shredded chicken 1 large can
  • 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 6 extra-large black olives
  • 1 carrot
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Brush some butter on the inside of a 10-inch skillet.

  3. Cut bread dough into 12 slices.
  4. Roll each slice into balls.
  5. Arrange the balls around the edge of the skillet.
  6. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle on some salt.
Chicken Dip
  1. Combine the cream cheese, shredded chicken, Miracle Whip, lemon juice, and Worcestershire sauce in a large mixing bowl.
  2. Beat with an electric mixer until well blended.
  3. Spoon dip into the center of the skillet.
  4. Spread it into an even layer so that it touches the edge of the bread balls.
  5. Bake for 32-38 minutes until the bread is baked through and lightly brown.
  6. Meanwhile, cut 7 round slices from 4 of the black olives.
  7. Cut the carrot into a 3-4 inch pointed piece.
  8. Remove the skillet from the oven and brush more butter over the bread pieces.

  9. Decorate the dip with 2 whole black olive eyes, one carrot nose, and 7 black olive buttons in the smile.
  10. Serve and enjoy.

 

Decorate your dip this Christmas. Serve a hot skilled filled with chicken dip surrounded by salty rolls.

If you enjoy this dip you might like these other Christmas appetizer ideas…

Rudolph cheese ball with bacon antlers on a white platter with bowls of star shaped and Christmas tree shaped crackers and a snowflake cheese knife all on a blue snowflake background.

Cheese Ball Reindeer
What Christmas party would be complete without a cheese ball? Make your’s extra special by decorating it to look like Rudolph.

Christmas Tree Calzones - Festive Vegetarian Meal

Calzone Christmas Trees

You can stuff these Christmas calzones with your family’s favorite pizza toppings and lots of cheese.

Cheesy Snowman Snacks - Mozzarella Bites Decorated like snowmen for Christmas.

Mozzarella Cheese Bite Snowmen
This Christmas snack is super easy to make using Mozzarella Cheese Bites and a black and orange food coloring marker. Your kids will love these cute and easy snowman appetizers.

Serve up some fun this holiday season by making one of these festive appetizers. See the recipes at HungryHappenings.com.

You might also like to make some of these fun Christmas and New Year’s Eve appetizers.

Mini Melting Snowman Cheese Balls • Spinach Artichoke Fritatta Trees
Green Pesto Crescent Roll Christmas Trees  • Parmesan Artichoke Cheesecake Countdown Clock
Cheese Filled Fried Won Ton Clocks • Mediterranean Pinwheels

 

Warm the hearts and fill the bellies of your holiday party guests by serving a festive Christmas appetizer. When you pull this Skillet Dip Snowman out of the oven everyone will

Be sure to let me know what your family thinks of this hot bubbly Skillet Snowman Dip in the comments below.

Filed Under: Christmas Recipes Tagged With: Appetizers, holiday food, snacks, snowman, snowmen

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Comments

  1. Donna

    November 1, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Can I do this in a crockpot?

    Reply
    • Beth

      November 6, 2020 at 8:40 pm

      Hi Donna,

      I have not yet made this in a crockpot but I have made it in a chafing dish, so I’m sure you can. I’d probably heat it on low. I’d guess it would take an hour or so to heat it up.

      Reply
  2. lori

    December 22, 2018 at 2:05 am

    Hello! None of the stores in my area carry the Pillsbury French Bread, but I’d love to make this adorable and tasty-sounding dish for our Christmas potluck–have you ever just baked the dip? If so, what timing would you recommend? Thanks in advance…

    Reply
    • Beth

      December 22, 2018 at 7:26 am

      Yes Lori, I make this dip all the time without the bread around the edge. It’s our family’s favorite appetizer and we have it at almost every family function. You can spread it into a pie plate or an 8 inch round ceramic dish and bake it for about 20 minutes just until it’s hot. You can even microwave it, but I personally love that the dip browns slightly in the oven. I think it tastes better when it’s baked.

      If you still want to use the skillet you can use pizza dough to create the balls (you can even stuff them with cheese) or use frozen dinner rolls (they are a bit larger than the balls I created using the Pillsbury dough). Here’s a link to a pizza skillet dip that I made using pizza dough so you can see how it works – https://hungryhappenings.com/skillet-pizza-dip-countdown-clock-new-years-appetizer/

      Enjoy and have a Merry Christmas.

      Reply
      • lori

        December 22, 2018 at 3:00 pm

        Thank you so much for your speedy reply! Merry Christmas to you and yours…

        Reply
      • lori

        December 27, 2018 at 6:19 pm

        I just thought I’d come back and report that the dip was a big hit! I ended up mounding the dip in the center of a 12″ baking dish, got it started in the oven for 7 minutes, surrounded it with French bread warm-and-serve rolls to retain that nice crusty bite, and had everything bake together for another 15 minutes. The cute snowman face was added, and it all turned out perfectly. Thanks again for a great addition to my holiday recipe collection. <=)

        Reply
        • Beth

          December 27, 2018 at 7:42 pm

          I am so happy to hear the snowman dip turned out so well and I’m glad your family enjoyed it. Adding the warm and serve roll around the outside was a great idea. I’ll have to give that a try.

          I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and that you have a happy new year too!

          Reply
  3. Colleen Tanner

    December 23, 2017 at 11:00 am

    Do you have to use miracle whip can you use mayonnaise instead

    Reply
    • Beth

      December 26, 2017 at 8:08 am

      If you use mayonnaise you might want to add 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons mustard powder, and 3 teaspoons white vinegar to make the mayo taste more like Miracle Whip. Otherwise the chicken dip might taste a bit bland.

      Reply
  4. Vicky

    December 14, 2016 at 1:15 am

    Would cast iron work???

    Reply
    • Beth

      December 15, 2016 at 4:36 pm

      Absolutely!

      Reply
  5. Erin Hewett

    December 7, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    The description mentions Miracle Whip, but the recipe doesn’t mention it. Is it supposed to have it?

    Reply
    • Beth

      December 7, 2016 at 11:27 pm

      Oh, my. I’m so glad you asked the question. I can’t believe I missed that.

      Use 1 cup of Miracle Whip in the recipe. I added it to the ingredients and instructions.

      Reply
  6. Mimi

    December 7, 2016 at 12:01 pm

    You show miracle whip in the video,but not on the ingredients list. How much do you use?

    Reply
    • Beth

      December 7, 2016 at 11:28 pm

      Oh, my. I’m so glad you asked the question. I can’t believe I missed that.

      Use 1 cup of Miracle Whip in the recipe. I added it to the ingredients and instructions.

      Reply
  7. L. Morrow

    November 29, 2016 at 1:21 pm

    Could I use real shredded chicken instead of the canned chicken? This is a really cute idea!!

    Reply
    • Beth

      November 30, 2016 at 1:24 pm

      Absolutely! If I have extra chicken in my fridge I like to use that instead of the can. It tastes great.

      Reply
  8. Tami

    December 23, 2015 at 9:17 am

    Nice!! I just love how simple and yet how cute! Serving this little guy at our Christmas brunch!

    Reply
    • Beth

      December 23, 2015 at 7:41 pm

      Oh, that is so great to hear. I hope everyone enjoys it! Merry Christmas.

      Reply
  9. Jo and Sue

    November 24, 2015 at 7:17 am

    This is sooooo cute. Definitely adding this to our Christmas appie list 🙂

    Reply
    • Beth

      November 24, 2015 at 7:31 am

      I can’t wait to see what you do with this recipe. I always love seeing your interpretation of my food crafts.

      Reply
  10. the patiologist

    November 23, 2015 at 10:12 am

    My family would love if I made a savory dish this year. The snowman appetizer dip might just be what they’re looking for – Sooooo cute!

    Reply
    • Beth

      November 23, 2015 at 9:21 pm

      My family is always surprised when I bring something savory to a family function. Like you, I usually bring desserts.

      Reply

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