This creamy, flavor-packed buffalo chicken dip takes everything you love about buffalo wings and turns it into a tasty dip that is perfect for game day, parties, or whenever you’re craving that classic buffalo wing flavor. 

The best smoked buffalo chicken dip

While the entire city of Buffalo, NY is going to come for my head for this, I don’t add blue cheese to my buffalo chicken dip. You can easily add it if you want to, but when I’m serving a crowd, I find that, more often than not, there is someone in the group who doesn’t like blue cheese. You could always offer some blue cheese crumbles on the side for the guests who love the funk! 

Ingredients you’ll need

• Chicken – this recipe works great with both smoked and grilled chicken, but you can also just grab a rotisserie chicken from the store. If you’re looking to smoke chicken for this yourself, check out our Whole Smoked Chicken on a Pellet Grill for a great recipe.
• Cream Cheese
• Buffalo wing sauce
• Mayonnaise
• Ranch dressing
• Cheddar cheese
• Green onions

Equipment you’ll need

• Smoker – any type of grill or smoker will work. I cooked this on my Traeger Ironwood XL, but you can also use a gas grill, charcoal grill, or offset smoker.
• Knife
• Bowl
• Hand mixer – or wooden spoon
• Oven safe dish

How to make smoked buffalo chicken dip

1. Prep

Shred the chicken. The key is to shred it small enough to get a little bit of chicken in every bite.

Slice the green onions. Keep the green separate from the white as you’ll use this for garnish at the end.

Shred the cheese if you don’t have pre-shredded.

2. Combine

Add the chicken, cream cheese, buffalo wing sauce, mayonnaise, ranch dressing, cheese, and onions to a large mixing bowl and combine.

You want to make sure that you mix all the ingredients well before cooking this dip so that you don’t end up with uneven sections.

I like to use my hand mixer to combine everything. If you don’t have a hand mixer, use a wooden spoon and some elbow grease.

Once the dip is fully incorporated, you can transfer it to an oven-safe dish or aluminum pan and smooth the top with the back of your spoon.

3. Fire up the smoker

Heat your smoker to 300°F.

Now, this recipe works just as well in an oven as it does on a smoker, but I find that a touch of smoky flavor really helps bring it to the next level – so if you’ve got a smoker use that.

Let it smoke for about one hour. When the top of the dip starts to get golden brown, you’ll know that it’s done.

What to dip with?

I like to serve my dip with celery sticks and toasted French bread, but you can also offer up chips, crackers, or whatever you have around the house.

I’m not kidding when I say that you could literally just eat it off the spoon!

More cheese-based appetizer recipes

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• Bacon Wrapped Cheese Stuffed Brats
• Smoked Shotgun Shells
• Smoked Stuffed Pepper Poppers
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The Best Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip

It's a combination of all the things we love: buffalo wings, ranch dressing, and melty cheese with crispy French bread to scoop it up.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 1 hour hour

Total Time 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes

Servings 8

Calories 319kcal

Author Breanna Stark

Ingredients

• 2 cups cooked chicken shredded into small pieces
• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• ½ cup ranch dressing
• 1 cup buffalo wing sauce
• ½ cup cheddar cheese shredded
• 2 bunches green onions sliced (separate white from green)
• celery sticks and toasted French bread to serve

Instructions

• Heat the smoker to 300°F.
• In a large bowl, combine the chicken, cream cheese, mayonnaise, ranch dressing, buffalo wing sauce, shredded cheddar cheese, and just the white parts of the green onions (save the green parts for the garnish at the end).
• With a hand mixer or a wooden spoon, mix all of the ingredients until smooth and well combined.
• Transfer the mixture to an oven-safe dish, smoothing the top down with a spoon. Place in the smoker.
• Smoke for 1 hour, or until it just starts to turn golden brown on top.
• Once cooked, remove from the smoker and let cool slightly. Garnish with the green parts of the onion and serve alongside celery sticks and toasted French bread or crackers.

Notes

Chicken – this recipe works great with both smoked and grilled chicken, but you can also just grab a rotisserie chicken from the store. If you’re looking to smoke chicken for this yourself, check out our Whole Smoked Chicken on a Pellet Grill for a great recipe.

Nutrition

Calories: 319kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 11g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.04g | Cholesterol: 56mg | Sodium: 1290mg | Potassium: 97mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 545IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 89mg | Iron: 0.3mg