Bacon Double Cheese Burger Dip

 

Who here is exhausted?  Show of hands, please?  With My daughter's birthday last week and St. Patty's Day and Easter coming up, oh yeah, and spring break?  I'm pooped.  Maybe if I didn't try to cram a million things into each day.  But then seriously, how much fun would that be?  I know me.  I'd be bored.  So I guess I'd better stop whining because I don't see anything changing anytime soon.  Right???

 

So what do I do?  Eat comfort food, of course.  And what's better comfort food than a warm, cheesy dip?   Well, for starters, one with bacon and hamburger in it!  That screams comfort to me.  And this dip did not disappoint!  It was amazing!

 

Bacon Double Cheese Burger Dip

Source: Key Ingredient

* 1/2 pound ground beef

* 6 strips bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces

* 1 small onion, diced

* 1 clove garlic, chopped

* 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature

* 1/2 cup sour cream

* 1/4 cup mayonnaise

* 1/2 cup mozzarella, shredded

* 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded

* 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

* 2 Tbsp. ketchup

Cook the ground beef in a pan over medium heat.  When you have about 3 minutes left to cook, add onion.  When ground beef is no longer pink, add garlic and remove from heat.  Drain the grease from the pan and set aside.

Cook the bacon in a pan until crispy, about 6-10 minutes.  Drain and set aside.

In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, mayonnaise and sour cream and beat until smooth.  Add Worcestershire sauce and ketchup and mix until blended.

Stir in mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese, hamburger and onion mixture and bacon.

 

 

Bake in a 350 degree oven until the top starts to turn light golden brown (about 20-30 minutes.)

I was taking this to work for a get together in the after noon and we don't have access to an oven.  I made this the night before and scooped it into my medium sized crock pot.  (I doubled the recipe.)   Cook on low for about 3 hours.  I think it worked great.  And I'm guessing from the fact that it disappeared so quickly that others thought it was pretty dang good too.

 

 

Serve with crackers or crostini.

I am a huge dip fan so I knew I'd love this when I saw the pictures.  But I can't even tell you how stinkin' good this is.  I will definitely be making this again for just about every get together.  It was that good.

 

 

Enjoy!

 

 

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{Secret Recipe Club} Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip

A couple of weeks ago I joined The Secret Recipe Club. It's a group of bloggers/recipe lovers who sign up and get assigned a blog. Then we make something from that blog and write about it. Fun right? My first post is scheduled for this Monday (the 22nd) but then yesterday I received an email from Amanda (the host of this totally fun "club") that a blogger backed out at the last possible minute. She was looking for a volunteer to make something and post it by the following day. That's today! I was a little torn between thinking "there's no way I can make something by tomorrow" and "that would be horrible if it were me".

So, still undecided I clicked on the blog link to see what Connor's Cooking was all about. It took about 5 seconds to make up my mind and email Amanda back and say "I'm in". I mean heck, she had some delicious recipes!

I was torn between the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip and the Oreo Turtle Bars. Decisions, decisions, decisions... I decided to make the Oreo bars later (because I am totally making those!) and make the dip. I thought my family would have no problem gobbling this up!

It was super easy to make (which I love) and so delicious!

Ingredients:
* 1 stick butter
* 1/3 cup brown sugar
* 1 tsp. vanilla
* 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
* 1/2 cup powdered sugar
* 3/4 cup chocolate chips

Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add brown sugar and stir until it dissolves and mixture starts to bubble. Remove from heat and add vanilla.

In another bowl, mix cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth.

Pour into brown sugar mixture and mix until well combined. Add chocolate chips and stir.

Refrigerate until ready to serve.


We ate it with Animal Cookies and Nilla Wafers. Oh my. It was delicious!!! I mean seriously... DELICIOUS!!!


Don't forget to come back on Monday to see my first official Secret Recipe =o)

Here are the links to the other recipes made. Amazing, right?