Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe
This Buffalo Chicken Dip is loaded with creamy, spicy, cheesy goodness. This chicken dip is perfect for parties served with chips or veggie sticks. It’s also really easy – just mix and bake. We love that it reheats really well so it’s a perfect make-ahead appetizer.
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What is Buffalo Chicken Dip?
This Buffalo Chicken Dip has the same flavor profile of buffalo chicken wings with that signature Franks RedHot original hot sauce. Similar to our Hot Shrimp Dip, or our popular Spinach Artichoke Dip, this dip is cheesy, creamy, spicy and incredible. It’s perfect for any party and of course as a game-day appetizer. All you have to do is mix the ingredients and bake (or use the crockpot method below).
Ingredients for Buffalo Chicken Dip:
You might already have all of the ingredients you need for this recipe since it uses pantry and refrigerator staples.
- Cream cheese, softened
- Ranch salad dressing or blue cheese dressing (we prefer refrigerated dressings)
- Frank’s Red Hot Original hot sauce
- Shredded mozzarella cheese
- Canned chicken breast (or try IP Whole Chicken)
- Celery sticks, carrot sticks, or chips to serve
Can I Make Buffalo Chicken Dip Ahead?
Since buffalo chicken reheats well, you can make it in advance and refrigerate up to 5 days or freeze.
- To Freeze: Place in a freezer-safe container, remove any excess air and freeze up to three months. When ready to serve the frozen dip, simply remove it from the freezer, and let it thaw in the refrigerator overnight.
- To Reheat: you can microwave until hot, stirring every 30 seconds, or place it into an oven-safe baking dish, and reheat in the oven at 350 for 10-15 minutes.
How to Make Buffalo Chicken Dip:
Buffalo chicken dip is a dish that almost completely fail-proof, only requiring a few ingredients and simple instructions.
1. In a medium bowl, cream together softened cream cheese, ranch, and hot sauce. It’s totally ok if it’s still a little lumpy.
2. Stir in shredded mozzarella and drained chicken and stir until well combined and chicken is shredded.
3. Transfer to a 1-quart casserole or pie dish and bake according to the directions in the recipe card. Serve warm with veggies or chips. I loved this served hot with carrots and celery – the fresh veggies and the contrasting savory spicy dip was irresistible!
Tips for Making Buffalo Chicken Dip:
Soften the cream cheese: If you forget to soften your cream cheese, heat uncovered in the microwave in 15-second increments until it’s softened. It really won’t matter in this recipe since the end product is baked and melted.
Use canned or fresh chicken. In this recipe, I use canned chicken because it makes the whole process even easier since I always have canned chicken in my pantry. If you prefer to use cooked Instant Pot Chicken, you can substitute 1 can of chicken with 1 1/2 cups of shredded cooked chicken breast.
Can I Make This in a Slow Cooker?
You can combine all of the ingredients, cover and cook on low heat for 3-4 hours or on high heat 1 to 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally until the dip is hot and bubbling then keep on the warm setting until ready to serve.
Is Buffalo Chicken Dip Spicy?
This chicken dip is mildly spicy. Adjusting the spice level of the buffalo dip is simple – just increase or decrease the amount of hot sauce you added to the mixture. If you like more heat, you can try the Extra Hot variety.
No matter how spicy or not spicy you make this easy buffalo chicken dip, it will still be amazing!
Frank’s Buffalo Chicken Dip is delightfully creamy and cheesy with the perfect amount of kick, its no wonder why everyone flocks right to the buffalo chicken dip.
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Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup ranch salad dressing, (or blue cheese dressing)
- 1/2 cup "Frank's Red Hot" hot sauce
- 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 12.5 oz can chunk chicken breast in water, drained
- celery sticks, carrot sticks, or chips to serve
Instructions
- Preheat Oven to 350˚ F. In a medium bowl, cream together 8 oz softened cream cheese, 1/2 cup ranch, 1/2 cup hot sauce.
- Stir in 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella and drained chicken and stir until well combined.
- Transfer to a 1-quart casserole or pie dish and bake at 350˚F for 20 minutes. Serve warm with veggies or chips.
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Natasha Kravchuk
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This buffalo chicken dip is so good! One of my family’s favorites.
I’m so glad to hear that! Thank you for the review.
Natasha I just love your tasty, spicy, and very very good buffalo dip!🥰 it is the best with your easy recipes.
I’m so happy that you love it!
Very good and best of all so easy. I usually make it in the crockpot with rotisserie chicken. Canned chicken is so much easier and you would never know it. Also a pie plate is the perfect amount. Everyone loved it!
That’s great, Shirl! So glad to hear that.
I am pregnant and everything I crave…I check for your version. Never fails me!!! This dip is my absolute favorite!!!
Congratulations on your pregnancy, Corrie! I’m so glad you loved this recipe!
We were surprised we could find the hot sauce here in our regular supermarket in the Netherlands. We bought it just because we trust you so much ;P. This is definitely a recipe we’ll be making again – so good. We made it with cheddar!
Adding cheddar sounds delicious! Thanks a lot for your review and good feedback, we’re so glad that you enjoyed our recipe!
I made this tonight and it’s sooo rich and spicy. I even cut the hot sauce in half and it’s still too spicy for is. Not sure if I’ll be making this again.
Love your recipes! Very simple to understand! Keep up the perfect recipes❤️
Thank you for that wonderful compliment, Maureen!
A unique set of flavors in this dip!
Thank you, Eddie!
Hi Natasha! Just wanted to let you and your readers know that we have been making this for so long since you posted the recipe, my kids LOVE it! We use leftover chicken, thighs, breast, anything… sometimes rotosserie from the store. Through trying this recipe many times and changing things around, we found the following: we prefer sharp cheddar to mozzarella- more flavor and less stringy, we have used different types of hot sauce with great results, there was a time we realized too late that we we didnt have enough hot sauce so we added bbq and loved it, now we use hot sauce, bbq, or both, thinking to try sweet chili sauce too. We serve with tortilla chips, carrots, and celery. Oftentimes we add more chicken and have this be our meal. Thanks for the awesome recipe!
Awww that’s the best! Thank you so much for sharing that with me Tallya! I’m all smiles
I’m going to be making this recipe for the first time, but I’m not much of a mozarella fan… Cheddar sounds great, thanks for the idea!
We made this dip a few weekends ago when having friends over for the playoff football games and oh my gosh. Talk about a huge hit! I’m not sure it lasted 30 minutes haha. People were hovering around it the entire time. This is a sure fire winner!
Hi Billy, I’m so glad to hear that! Thank you for sharing.
Came out perfectly! Made it exactly as the recipe said and we loved it!
This is my go-to for super bowl! Love it with celery, carrots, and even on baguette!
Do you know if this does well to be prepared and served cold?
Hi Katie, we enjoy it warm but it should work both ways.
I came across this recipe when browsing your site. It is my go to dip now if we are heading out to a party! So easy to make and so finger-licking-good!! And your site amazing, I love every single recipe I made from your site. Thank you Natasha!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the wonderful review, Tatyana!
This recipe is spot on! I just made it earlier today for the first time for an engagement party appetizer. I doubled the recipe for a larger crowd and it was still the first food eaten up! Everybody loved it and the spicy was just right!
That’s so awesome! Thank you for the wonderful review, Galina!
I will this recipe a try tomorrow. I have left over chicken do you think it would work with thighs part or does it have to be chicken breast? Also can I omit the hot sauce? My kids can’t tolerate spicy food. I am wondering if you have other recipes for left over chicken.
Hi Nahla, I haven’t tested it with thighs but I think it could work. The hot sauce is a big part of this dish, maybe try a milder version or even substituting something for it? One of our readers wrote “Delicious 👌🏻 I don’t like it to be too spicy so I added 1/4 hot sauce and 1/4 BBQ. It was perfect.” If you experiment, let me know how you liked the recipe.
I used 2 boxes cream cheese, 1cup of sour cream hot sauce and cheddar cheese and shredded chicken delicious.
Thank you for the nice review Mary 😬.
I’m going to try your recipe tonight, but I’m using a Ghost pepper sauce or Carolina reaper pepper sauce mixed with Frank’s Red Hot sauce.
We are making an extremely hot and a mild version for a Halloween party.
I want to know how you like it!! We love extremely hot appetizers!! 🙂 My husband and I both have a “hot tooth” 😉
Simply perfect!
Thank you Richard 😁!
I was looking for a chicken salad sandwich recipe and I was wondering if I could use this recipe to make one ?
I’m not so sure if this will work as a chicken salad filling for your sandwich. You may use my Egg Salad recipe instead and use or add it with chicken.
Can I mix the ingredients the night before and bake it before the party? Also instead of canned chicken can I cook up chicken breast and shred it?
Thanks!!
Yes you can cook chicken breast or even use shredded rotisserie chicken. And yes, you can pre-make it and bake before the party 🙂
Delicious 👌🏻 I don’t like it to be too spicy so I added 1/4 hot sauce and 1/4 BBQ. It was perfect. Thank you.
Mmm I like the idea of adding BBQ sauce. Thanks for sharing!
I LOVED this recipe but with Cholula hot sauce instead of the Frank’s. Franks sauce was bitter for us.
I haven’t tried Cholula. Glad to know it works well. Thanks Julie! Which version of Franks did you try? I know there are several out there.
Lol, I have these ingredients from Costco that I asked woman about recipe so she gave me! I’m so addicted with it.
That is too funny! 🙂
Made this for Super Bowl….NOM!!!!! Also made a lighter version of jalapeño poppers, Rocco DiSpirito’s recipe, which is one of my favs!
Thanks for the good review Cindy :).
Looks good! I made a very similar dip not too long ago and it really was bombzilla! 🙂
Awesome!! Thanks Kate 🙂
Amazing dip! Perfect blend of ingredients
Thank you Anna for the great review, we ate ours pretty quick and loved it with celery and carrots the most. How did you server yours?
Hey Natasha! I actually make a very similar dip except I do half ranch and half blue cheese, and I use cheddar cheese instead of mozzarella. It’s sooooo good and everyone loves it. You should try it out!
Your version sure sounds tasty! I’ll definitely have to try yours. Do you serve it with chips or veggies?
This recipe is from franksredhot.com here is the link: http://www.franksredhot.com/recipes/franks-redhot-buffalo-chicken-dip-RE1242-1
Thanks for sharing that Olga! The gal at Costco changed it up a bit and it was sooo good!
I just made this and it ah-mazing!! My hubby is going to love this! He loves to put Frank’s hot sauce on everything!!!
Olga, thank you for a great review, enjoy :).
You can also make it in the crock pot ahead of time. That’s how I always make it;)
Thanks for the tip Julia :). What ingredients do you use in your version of the dip?
Perfect timing for the Superbowl tomorrow!
I agree, it will get eaten fast :).
I will deffinetly try this version, my kids love chicken wing dip! I was given a recipe that I make all the time and its very simple and delish as well, here it is…. 1 (8oz) cream cheese , 1 (12.5) can of chicken breast, 1 jar of medium or hot salsa, and eather Mexican blend or mozzarella cheese per taste, mix and bake till hot and bubbly ….
Oooh that does sound very similar! I’ll have to try your version too. Thanks so much for sharing 🙂