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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!

football shaped dip with pretzels, strawberries and apples around the edge

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.

A mound of chocolate chip cookie dough shaped like a football sits on a white marble surface, perfect as a football dip for game day celebrations.

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How to make Peanut Butter Football Dip:

  1. Make sure your cream cheese and butter are room temperature to avoid lumps.
  2. It’s best if you use a regular store peanut butter (NOT a natural one that requires stirring).
  3. Make this into a Reese’s Peanut Butter Dip by substituting chopped peanut butter cups for the mini chips.
  4. 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

By: Dorothy Kern
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!
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 24 servings
football shaped dip with pretzels, strawberries and apples around the edge
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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

Serving: 2tablespoons | Calories: 152kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 65mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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  1. Wowser…I’m super excited to make this! We are a football family…nothing gets done from late August through January in our house, lol! Love your blog and now following you on Pinterest! Thanks for sharing!

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  3. I want to try this with chocolate and white chocolate stripes. Make it like a giant Buckeye! Perfect for a Ohio state game.

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  5. OMFG! It’s SO GOOD it’s DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made this for a football party and it almost didn’t make it to the party! It was SOOOOOO unbelievable that I almost couldn’t stop eating it after scraping the bowl, licking the spoons, fingers, and mixer prongs clean. I have never done that before lol Then I tried some on a pretzel and it was even more amazing if you can believe it!!! I did not use parchment paper for this. I WILL be making this again! Thank you to whoever created this recipe!

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