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The original Peanut Butter Football Dip – a football shaped sweet dip filled with peanut butter and chocolate! One of the BEST Super Bowl Dips ever! Peanut butter, cream cheese, butter, and sugar mix to make a sweet cheeseball recipe that’s perfect for a party! Shape it like a football for game day!
Chances are you’re reading this because the Super Bowl is coming up, or you just really love football shaped food. What is a Peanut Butter Football? It’s like a cheeseball, but it’s peanut butter…with chocolate chips.
This is one of the best dips for super bowl! It’s a peanut butter dip made with cream cheese and perfect for dipping with pretzels. You could even make this into a Reese’s peanut butter dip super easily by swapping out the mini chocolate chips for chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. It’s super easy to make: make your batter and form it into a football, then cover it in chocolate sprinkles (or mini chocolate chips).
Then eat it, with pretzels…or cookies…or a spoon, which is my preferred method.
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How to make Peanut Butter Football Dip:
- Make sure your cream cheese and butter are room temperature to avoid lumps.
- It’s best if you use a regular store peanut butter (NOT a natural one that requires stirring).
- Make this into a Reese’s Peanut Butter Dip by substituting chopped peanut butter cups for the mini chips.
- Pretzels are great dippers (salty/sweet) but so are apple slices or graham crackers or other cookies.
Peanut Butter Football Dip
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Ingredients
- ¼ cup (57g) butter, , softened (see note)
- 4 ounces (113g) cream cheese, , softened
- 1 cup (256g) peanut butter, your choice; crunchy or smooth
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups (170g) powdered sugar, (up to 2 cups if needed)
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
- Chocolate sprinkles or chocolate chips for the outside of the football
- White chocolate or frosting for the football laces
Instructions
- Cream butter, cream cheese, and peanut butter until mixed (using a hand-held mixer). Mix in vanilla.
- Add powdered sugar, ½ cup at a time, and mix until combined. (If you want a stiffer mixture, add the extra ½ cup of powdered sugar.) Mix in chocolate chips.
- Turn out mixture on a large sheet of waxed paper. Use your hands to form into a football shape. (This would also be cute as “lips” for Valentine’s Day!)
- Place the waxed paper onto your serving plate. (It helps if the plate has sides…less mess!) Cover in sprinkles or chocolate chips, pressing them into the surface a little so they stick. Pipe on the laces using melted white chocolate or some leftover frosting and chill until ready to serve.
- Serving suggestion: pretzels, animal crackers, cookies, a spoon.
Notes
- I used salted butter to make this originally, so I didn’t add salt. If using unsalted butter, add 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Nutrition
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Is there is step missing about firming up the ‘batter’? After creaming everything, it seems very soft and hard to form into a shape.
If it is too soft, pop it in to the fridge to chill for a little while. How soft it is after creaming depends on how soft your butter/cream cheese was, and how the temp is in your house. Chilling it for about 30 minutes should help you form the shape. It won’t get super hard, more like soft play dough. (If you’re running short on time, you can freeze it for about 15 minutes instead of using the refrigerator.) Enjoy!
Is this the size of a dinner plate? Or smaller? I’m trying to decide how many chocolate sprinkles I need to buy to cover the whole thing
The plate I used was an oblong dinner plate size. If you have a walmart in your area, they sell a large tub of the chocolate jimmies – it’s cheaper than buying a few little bottles! I probably used about 1 cup of sprinkles, give or take a bit.
could u make this the night before and it still be ok ?
Yes! I had some in my refrigerator for several days. It should hold it’s shape fine. 🙂
how do you make the batter?
It’s super easy, just cream it all together. Then enjoy!
Could dip it with celery for a no-wheat alternative.
For sure! And to make it healthy. Celery has negative calories, right? It’ll make the peanut butter better for you.
Celery was a delicious dipper – in fact it was my favorite. The saltiness of the celery balanced out the richness of the dip for me. We also dipped pretzels and animal crackers. Yum!
OMG. Celery – you’re a genius. I always go to sweet, but I like the way you think. Celery has negative calories, right? So I can eat more dip? ha!
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