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The original Peanut Butter Football Dip – a football shaped sweet dip filled with peanut butter and chocolate!
Peanut Butter Football Dip is the ultimate super bowl recipe! 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!
Perfect Football Dip for a party!
Chances are you’re reading this because the Super Bowl is coming up, or you just really love football shaped food.
I rarely know who is playing in the super bowl. I only know I’m glad Fantasy Football season is OVER. (Fantasy Widows, you get me, right?
We’ve talked about how much my husband loves football. It’s his outlet and he cannot ever get enough.
Before Jordan was in elementary school I would take her away for the weekend of the Superbowl. We’d come home Monday morning and I’d fast-forward through the DVR’d game to watch the commercials.
Once she got into elementary school and needed to be home Monday morning, my husband solved that problem by conveniently scheduling a business trip in the Bay Area for bright and early Monday morning. That way, he had to go stay at a hotel on Sunday night, rendering him alone to watch the Super Bowl in peace.
Now that she’s a teenager and – gasp – likes watching football, we’ll be hosting a party.
With football dip!
What is a Peanut Butter Football?
It’s like a cheeseball, but it’s peanut butter…with chocolate chips.
This football is the perfect game day appetizer or dessert recipe. Hey, why can’t it be an appetizer? It’s a cheeseball recipe, after all. 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.
A Peanut Butter Football Dip is the perfect game day recipe. It’s a sweet cheeseball recipe full of peanut butter and chocolate!
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.
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Peanut Butter Football Dip
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.
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Recipe Notes
- I used salted butter to make this originally, so I didn’t add salt. If using unsalted butter, add 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Recipe Nutrition
Other fun sweet dip recipes to try:
- Peanut Butter Cheeseball
- S’mores Cheeseball
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Dip
- Cheesecake Dip
- Click here to see my ultimate Football Party Menu, and here to see more PEANUT BUTTER recipes!
- Peanut Butter Football Cookies
- Mini Brownie Football Pies
Last Updated on January 1, 2023
I’m making this as one of my Super Bowl treats, it sounds amazing. Can’t wait for the grandkids to taste it.
I hope you enjoy!!! 🙂
Im making it for a superbowl party but instead making it vegan sounds yummy!!!!!!!!!!
This looks great! My dad is a football coach so he will love this! Can’t wait to try it out! ~Donika
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Oh my god this is AMAZING! If I made this for my boyfriend, I think he would explode with joy.
Um who am I kidding. If I made this for myself, I would be…………….super happy 🙂 Love your blog 🙂
LOL! Same here. 😉 And thanks!
I just found your blog….omg…I think I will get up and go make this for college football tomorrow. You have some terrific recipes .
Oh, I hope you enjoyed it! I need to have a football party so I can make it again. 🙂
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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