What you need is…
8oz cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped cranberries
1 mandarin orange
8 oz whipped topping.
1 tsp vanilla
Steps
Get your cranberries out of the fridge or freezer. If there in the freezer run them under cold water.

Chop those cranberries until they are small and minced. You could be smart and put them into a food processor . Wait some people do not have a food processor.

Keep chopping.

Chop up the orange.

Now add the orange to the cranberries in a big bowl.
Add the sugar to the orange/cranberry mixture.

Next add the vanilla to the bowl.

Now add in the cream cheese and beat it until it is smooth.

Fold in the whipped topping.

Put the dip in the fridge for about an hour.

That simple. Server with graham crackers, fruit, crackers, pretzels.