This cranberry dip with cream cheese (cranberry orange cream cheese spread) is a fast and easy recipe that can even be added last minute to your holiday festivities. It can also be eaten alone as a cranberry sauce or used for a sauce for turkey or chicken (or even cranberry cream cheese sandwich spread!). This really is the best cranberry cream cheese appetizer or holiday dip!WE HAVE LOTS OF RECIPE TIPS IN THE POST, SO BE SURE TO SCROLL UP TO READ THEM ALL!
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time15 minutesmins
Course: Appetizers
Cuisine: American
Servings: 10
Calories: 291kcal
Author: LittleCooksReadingBooks.com
Ingredients
12ouncebag of fresh cranberries
1/4cupwater
1cupwhite sugar
1cuporange marmalade
12ouncescream cheesesoftened
Instructions
Wash cranberries and place in a pot. Add 1/4 cup water.
Add sugar and marmalade to pot. Stir.
Cover pot and heat on low until cranberries just start to pop, around 10 minutes. Stir.
Spread softened cream cheese on the bottom of a baking dish or a festive holiday dish.
Add cranberry mixture on top of the cream cheese and gently spread.
Serve this cranberry cream cheese spread with crackers, crusty bread, or apples.
Notes
If your cranberry mixture seems too thin, let it cook down a little longer and remove from burner. Sit for 10 minutes to thicken.You can serve this at room temperature or warm. If you want to serve it warm later, heat in the microwave or cover and heat in oven for 8-10 minutes at 350 until just heated through.VARIATIONS of Cranberry Orange Cream Cheese DipYou don't have to make this as just a cranberry orange marmalade cream cheese dip!This very merry cranberry cream cheese dip is easy to play around with! You can make this cold dip as:
cranberry jalapeno cream cheese dip
cranberry apricot cream cheese dip
cranberry pepper jelly cream cheese dip
cranberry salsa cream cheese dip
cranberry pomegranate cream cheese dip
cranberry pecan cream cheese dip
Just play around with the ingredients to get recipe flavors you love!