Pesto Cheese Fondue Recipe - Fondues Recipes (2024)

Of all the fondue recipes I’ve made over the years, this is a favorite. This Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto and Cheese Fondue Recipewill rock your party, or your romantic dinner for two!

My first encounter with fondue was on my honeymoon in the summer of 1999… feeling old.

Lt. Dan and I had just finished college and after 3 and a half years of dating we thought, “What the heck, let’s get married!”

Lt. Dan had saved some money for our honeymoon and we determined it was enough for either a week on a tropical island, or a month-long road trip out west.Having just graduated college and not having to start work for a couple months, we opted for the road trip.

We spent an entire month working our way through little towns in Colorado. From Vale, to Steamboat Springs, to Canyon City, to Colorado Springs. We stayed in several cabins a college buddy’s family loaned us, lounged in natural hot springs, hiked, rode horses, and ate in some amazing restaurants.

One of our favorite memories was finding a fondue restaurant called the Mona Lisa in Manitou Springs, the town at the foot of Pikes Peak.

Weren’t we cute? Lovebirds in 1999.

We sat out on a tiny open-air balcony to enjoy our first experience with fondue. We were so young and care-free, that this opulent dining experience felt like it was straight out of the movies. Course after course, wine after wine, we laughed, flirted, and ever so slyly gorged ourselves with bread, cheese and chocolate.

To this day, it was one of the most romantic dinners I’ve ever experienced.

We knew fondue was something we would have to do again.After returning home, we promptly acquired a fondue pot, so we could recreate our experience at home.

We have hosted many fondue parties over the years, each bringing back the memory of our first nostalgic fondue dinner on a balcony in the mountain air.

I’ve experimented with quite a few cheese fondue recipes: the classic swiss, beer and cheddar, irish dubliner fondue… but this pesto laced cheese fondue recipe is a real winner.

I recently discovered DeLallo’s new Simply Pesto, and immediately fell in love with the Sun-Dried Tomato & Olive Pesto.

Guys… it is so good.

Dare I say just as good, if not better, than homemade sun-dried tomato pesto, and made from natural non-scientific ingredients.

We’ve been eating it left and right over DeLallo Whole Wheat Pasta with a sprinkle of fresh romano cheese, but I digress.

This was just the pesto to breathe life into a creamy italian fontina cheese fondue!

I made a classic cheese fondue recipe, using creamy and nutty italian fontina cheese (sometimes called fontal or fontinella.) Then once the cheese was molten and hot, I stirred in a generous scoop of sun-dried tomato pesto to kick up the flavor.

Briny, nutty, fresh and fragrant oozing pot of goodness. That’s what this is.

Try dunking bread, gerkin pickles, or veggies in it, and you have a party in a pot. No noise-makers required.

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Delallo Foods. All pesto-loving opinions are my own.