We are in football season and I decided to bring you some cute ideas for tailgate parties. If you are hosting one or just attending it, you can make any of these easy but pretty treats for football fans.
1. Strawberry Football
Ingredients: strawberries, dark or milk chocolate, and white chocolate.
Instructions: Get some strawberries, melt some dark or milk chocolate and dip the strawberries in it. Once the strawberries dry you can use the white chocolate to draw some lines so they look like football balls.
2. Chicken and Waffle Sliders
Ingredients: mini waffles, fried chicken, and toothpicks.
Instructions: this is very easy! Make a sandwich with two mini waffles and a piece of fried chicken and finish it with a toothpick so they won’t fall apart.
3. Football Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Ingredients: your favorite cinnamon roll recipe, football cookie cutter, and vanilla glaze.
Instructions: prepare your cinnamon rolls and before putting them in the oven, cut them with your cookie cutter (or a knife if you don’t have one), and put them in the oven until slightly golden. Then you only have to decorate them with the vanilla glaze, and you are done.
4. Football Cupcakes
Ingredients: chocolate cupcakes, chocolate icing and vanilla icing.
Instructions: decorate the cupcakes with the chocolate icing and then, make them into a football ball with the vanilla icing. Use a pastry bag for more precision.
5. Football Chocolate Pretzels
Ingredients: pretzel sticks, dark or milk chocolate and vanilla glaze or icing.
Instructions: repeat the same steps you did for number 1.
6. Mini Bacon Cheeseburger Bites
Ingredients: crispy crowns potatoes, mini-burgers (or ground beef), cooked bacon, and cheddar.
Instructions: bake or fry the crispy crowns. Cook the burgers and the bacon. Place on top of each crispy crown a burger, then the cheddar, and finally the bacon.
7. Brownie Footballs
Ingredients: brownies, cookie cutter or knife, chocolate icing or melted chocolate, and vanilla glaze.
Instructions: cut the brownies in the shape of footballs. Decorate them first with the milk or dark chocolate icing and then once it is dry, decorate with the vanilla glaze.
Ingredients: your favorite recipe for deviled eggs and green onion.
Instructions: prepare your deviled eggs (you can use a classic recipe with hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, pepper and salt) and then cut green onions for the decoration.
And for the Auburn fans here are two cute ideas that you should definitely try at your next tailgate party:
9. Marshmallow Tiger Tails
Ingredients: white marshmallows, orange chocolate dip (or white chocolate dip with orange artificial food dye), milk or dark chocolate, and wooden skewers.
Instructions: spear three marshmallows with a wooden skewer. Dip them into your orange chocolate dip, and once it’s dry, decorate it with melted milk chocolate to simulate tiger stripes.
10. Tiger Cookies
Ingredients: your favorite Oreo cookies (or any other similar cookie), orange chocolate dip (or white chocolate dip with orange artificial food dye), and milk or dark chocolate.
Instructions: dip the cookies into the melted orange chocolate or the milk chocolate. And decorate with the other one creating stripes (milk chocolate with orange stripes and orange cookies with brown stripes).