You can certainly light up your Christmas table with these dips and trays this festive season. Before prodding into the details of the specific chips, dips and trays let me tell you about the importance of synchronizing them in a specific manner.
 

Most of the hosts' are careful about pairing chips with matching dips and trays nowadays. This act not only registers them in their guest’s good books, but also encourages their guest to covet it.

At times I have seen guests experiencing a hard time in finding the right dip for their chips because the bowls are scattered across the table.  If you have a matching dip and chip trays  then it becomes easier to carry the food across the table, and your guest can easily reach out to their favorite dips  even if they are carrying a cocktail in their hands.

Any appetizer is incomplete without a matching dip. You can perhaps choose from mint flavored dips, herbaceous dips, spicy black bean dips or sweet dips for an appetizer. What dip to serve with which chip, is purely your discretion.
 

You can consider these four dips and trays to light up your Christmas table:

1. Juliska’s Chip Tray:

This tray reminds you of the classic European stoneware. The best thing about this chip and dip trays it bears all your agonies?! They are designed so as to bear extreme temperature conditions.  That means you need not to worry if you wish to serve crispy pita chips with hot spinach and artichoke dip.  

2. Woven Chip and Dip set:

I had come across this wonderful woven chip and dip set during my visit to Philippines.  There I had seen many village artisans involved in weaving this chip and dip set which is too good for poolside entertaining.  You can place the vegetable crudités like carrots, zucchini, string beans, red peppers, yellow peppers, and string beans in the chip tray. And it’s accompanying buttermilk herb dip in a dip tray. Don’t you feel from now onwards you should be serious about your dips and trays?!

3. Christmas Tree chip and dip:  

You can leave out your old chips and trays in favor of this hand-blown chip and dip. I think this chip and tray perfectly synchronizes with the tradition of Christmas.  The green colored chips and trays by Santa-Cruz based company Annieglass simply amazes you with its appearance. You can make best of it by serving pita chips with a reviving, hummus-like dip, like Chickpea Cilantro Dip.  Keeping the importance of Christmas in mind most of the time I suggest my friends to serve their chips in accompanying dips and trays, which mimes the purpose of the occasion.

4. Spode Christmas Tree:

Again an iconic chip and dip set to kick off your Christmas celebrations.  The Spode Christmas Tree carved on the tray enlivens your Christmas memories.  You can use this tray to serve a warm crab dip with crisp water crackers. By now you might have realized how important it is to synchronize your chips with assorting dips and trays.

You now have a much clearer idea about the types of dips and trays that best compliment the various types of chips. 

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