Super Bowl Snack Recipes: Team Colored Dips

The Super Bowl is a great time to show off your snack savvy. More than just tasty this team of dips may win the snack bowl championship series for presentation. You will impress your salty snack loving crowd and the sweet tooth crew with this duo of game day dips.

Cream Cheese Dip: This is complicated so pay attention, take eight ounces of soften cream cheese and eight ounces of marshmallow cream. Stir the soften cream cheese and marshmallow cream together and blend well. You are done, just chill until game time.

To kick it up the game day, serve the dip in your team colors. Set aside one third plain white, mash in some strawberries or raspberries into a third for a reddish dip and blue berries into the last third for blue. This make a great tasting and fine looking tri-colored fruit dip tray. Surround with sliced pineapple, apple, cantaloupe and any other available fruit for a unique pre-game presentation.

Bean dips: Eight ounces soften cream cheese, eight ounces sour cream, one-15 ounce can beans, one package Lipton onion soup mix, two cups pepper jack or cheddar cheese grated, two teaspoons chili powder, six cloves finely diced garlic, milk to thin, about half a teaspoon of salt and a few shots of Dat'l Do It (about two teaspoons) or your favorite hot sauce.

This recipe actually requires using the stove. Using a regular pan, not Teflon coated pan, heat the beans and the diced garlic in a couple of teaspoons of oil. Canned beans are precooked so you just need to heat them to a light boil for about ten minutes. After heating take the beans off the heat and mash the heck out of them with a potato masher. Add a cup of grated cheese and mash some more. Add soup mix, seasoning, cream cheese, sour cream and blend well. Reserve one cup of cheese for garnish. Remember not to use Teflon coated pans. Note: I never drain beans. The liquid in the can is just fine in the dip. Add milk to adjust the thickness to a smooth, chip friendly consistency. About a quarter cup milk is all you may need.