These festive Christmas Tree Spinach Dip Breadsticks combine creamy, cheesy spinach dip with buttery, golden breadstick dough for a fun and delicious holiday appetizer. The dough is shaped into a Christmas tree, filled with a rich spinach mixture, sliced into branches, and twisted for that perfect pull‑apart effect. Baked until beautifully golden, this appetizer becomes a warm, crowd‑pleasing centerpiece for any Christmas or New Year’s gathering.
Course Appetizer, Bread, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine American, Italian
Keyword baked, breadsticks, cheesy, party food, spinach
In a bowl, beat together the spinach, cream cheese, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, pepper, Italian seasoning, parmesan cheese, and mozzarella cheese. Beat until creamy. Set aside.
To make the Christmas tree shape, unroll the pizza crust onto a sheet of parchment paper. Press out into a 9 x 13-inch rectangle. Use a pizza cutter to cut one larger tree-shaped triangle and two smaller triangles. Move the smaller triangles to a second sheet of parchment paper with their straight edges touching. Press together to create a second triangle of dough that is the same shape as the first.
Spread the spinach dip across the second triangle. Flip the first triangle over on top so you have layers of pizza dough with spinach dip sandwiched between them.
Make 1-inch wide cuts along each side of the tree, leaving about an inch in the center intact to make the branches of the tree.
Grab each "slice" and twist it upwards. At the top, where they are short, you'll only twist halfway around. At the bottom, where they are longer, you can do two or three full twists.
Melt butter and stir in garlic salt and seasoning, then brush over breadsticks. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes until golden brown on top and cooked through on the bottom. Do not undercook. Serve warm.