Fruit dip is a dipping sauce basically prepared with cream cheese, vanilla, and sour cream, often, with the addition of one or more of the fruits like apples, oranges, pineapples, strawberries, marshmallows, almonds etc. Among various kinds of fruit dips, one of the refreshing recipes suggests blending together peach slices, strawberries, lemon juice, and almond extract. The dip is normally served with bite sized assorted fruits dipped into the sauce.
Commonly Used Ingredients and Preparation Overview of Fruit Dips
There are numerous ways of making fruit dips with the use of varied ingredients. One of the basic recipes suggests the use of softened cream cheese, sugar, sour cream, and vanilla extract.
The dip is prepared by combining all the ingredients and beating them until a creamy and smooth texture is attained.
Fruit Dip Recipe Variations
Some of the popular variations of fruit dip have been discussed hereunder:
- Almond variant- this variant suggests addition of almonds, liqueur, and chopped almonds to basic recipe’s ingredients. The dip can be served after garnishing with chopped almonds.
- Raspberry based dip- sweetened raspberries are pureed and combined with the basic recipe’s ingredients to prepare this dip.
- Lemon fruit dipping sauce- the basic fruit dip is combined with lemon juice, lemon zest, and some more sugar.
- Marshmallow fruit dip- marshmallow creme is added to the ingredients of the basic recipe to prepare this dip.
- Creamy pineapple based dip- this dip is a blended mix of cream cheese, orange peel, marshmallow cream, and crushed pineapple.
- Sherry fruit dip- whipping cream, cream cheese, sherry, and vanilla extract are mixed together, followed by adding confectioner’s sugar in the end.
- Mandarin orange fruit dip- it is a creamy dip made with cream cheese, vanilla, yogurt, and oranges. The dip is garnished with already reserved orange slices and served with assorted fruits.
- Caramel apple dip- this dip is perfect to be served with apples. It is prepared by melting caramels in water, and then combining the content with a mix of brown sugar and cream cheese. Caramels are prepared by heating together white sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, milk, whipping cream, and butter, followed by addition of vanilla extract after turning off the heat. The mixture is allowed to cool and then cut into squares, known as caramels, before serving.
Serving Suggestions
- Fruit dips are served chilled along with varied fruit dippers like apples, bananas, kiwi, grapes, papaya, pineapple, raspberries, and strawberries.
- Fruit dip can also be served with bagel bites, which are bite sized pizza breads.
