The Superbowl is this weekend! Are you planning a little get-together at your house or attending a party somewhere else?? Either way, you’ll probably be making some sort of appetizer or treat to share and I have the perfect one for you…a Football Red Velvet Cheese Ball!

For New Year’s Eve we went to a friend’s house and I made a delicious red velvet cheese ball that you may have seen on Pinterest and it was a huge hit with everyone, so I thought I’d make a variation of that for the Superbowl party or any football party.

Football Red Velvet Cheese Ball Recipe

Ingredients:

1 box of red velvet cake mix

1/2 cup butter at room temperature

8 oz. cream cheese at room temperature

1/2 cup powdered sugar

2 T. brown sugar

3/4 cup mini chocolate chips

1 T. white chocolate chips

Assorted cookies and crackers

Directions:

1. With an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add cake mix, powdered sugar and brown sugar. Mix until well blended.

2. Turn the mixture out onto a piece of plastic wrap. Form into a football shape, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

3. Unwrap cheese ball and place on serving tray. Use white chocolate chips to make the laces on the football and cover remainder of ball with mini chocolate chips.

4. Serve with your choice of cookies or graham crackers.

I served mine with Nilla Wafers and Mini Graham Crackers and both were delish! I guarantee it’ll be the hit of the party!

For more Superbowl party appetizers, visit these posts about Superbowl party food ideas or Superbowl Party Ideas + Free Printables.

And now for the big question…who are you routing for…the 49er’s or the Ravens???

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The 2013 Superbowl is coming up pretty soon, it’s on Sunday February 3rd this year. If you like to get together with friends and family to watch the big game, you will probably be serving (or asked to bring) appetizers and snacks, so I thought I’d share some yummy Superbowl party food ideas that are guaranteed to be winners, no matter the outcome of the game.

Superbowl Party Food Ideas

Cheesy Roasted Red Pepper Dip from Our Best Bites.

Taco cups from Disney Family.

Cheesy Garlic Sticks from Six Sisters’ Stuff.

Bacon Wrapped Li’l Smokies from Tasty Kitchen.

Cheddar Bacon Ranch Pulls from Plain Chicken.

Stuffed Pizza Rolls from Our Best Bites.

Chocolate Oatmeal Cream Pie Footballs from Shugary Sweets.

Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Chips from One More Moore.

Fruity Peanut Butter Yogurt Dip from The Wannabe Chef.

Or these football shaped Oreo pops we shared last year.

For more Superbowl party inspiration, visit this post about Superbowl Party Ideas + Free Printables or Mason Jar Tailgating Ideas and stay tuned for another yummy appetizer that I’ll be sharing over at SNAP! later this week. I’ll let you know when it’s up!

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I’ve had Valentine’s Day on the brain, working on projects and posts and stuff since the beginning of the year, but I thought we’d take a little detour today and think about football for a minute since the Pro Bowl is this weekend and the Superbowl is next weekend.  Although my boys’ teams didn’t make it this year (boo!), we still like to watch a good football game with family and friends!  I have some ideas for how to decorate, what to serve or bring to your football party along with some fun, free football printables too (you know how I love those printables)!

Decorate your party table with some green butcher paper, tape and white number stickers to resemble a football field (via Martha Stewart).

Or use carpet grass and duct tape from the home improvement store (instructions at Chica and Jo).

Pennant banners will dress up your party area.  This superbowl party printable set from Wants and Wishes Design has lots of fun ideas!

As we all know, most of the party is centered around the television screen or standing around mingling with friends, so bite-size snacks and finger foods would work best.  Below are some yummy recipes that you could try! (Click on the link to take you to the recipe).

Sausage & Pepperoni Pizza Puffs from Plain Chicken

Perfect Guacamole from gimme some oven!

Cheesy, Beefy Nachos from Cheese and Chocolate

Cookie Dough dip from add a pinch

Caramel Cheesecake Apple Dip from Half Baked Baker

Double Chocolate Football Cupcakes from The Baker Chick

And finally some free printables to dress up your party food area:

These football party printables created by Little Sprout Creations and featured on Hostess With the Mostess includes Beverage Labels, Cupcake Toppers, Pretzel Bags, Popcorn Boxes, and Snack Baskets (love these!).  Click HERE to download all of the printables.

Anders Ruff created these fun football tags and touchdown flags.

Kim at The Celebration Shoppe designed some cute wrappers, pennant flags and large papers.

Fresh Chick Design Studio created football field cupcake wrappers – download HERE.

Superbowl banners from Peonies and Poppyseeds

Blue & white printables from Living Locurto – love the “I’m here for the commercials” flags!

Some really cool graphics on these printables from Modern Moments Design

Or you can create your own cupcake wrappers using black and white striped scrapbook paper, as Lisa Storms at Fiskars shows you.

And lastly, I just HAD to share this Pittsburgh Steelers dessert table display created by the amazing Bakerella.  Not only because the Steelers are my husband’s favorite team, but because it’s my favorite football desserts table display.  Check out all the details and pics HERE.

I hope you are able to use some of these ideas for your Superbowl party!  Who are you cheering for…the Giants or the Patriots???

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