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Home » Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Footballs

Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Footballs

January 28, 2018 By Kim Lange 17 Comments

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Win the Day with these Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Footballs!

Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Footballs

Superbowl is this weekend and you could make these chocolate covered peanut butter cups for your Superbowl party!

Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Footballs

It's not a Superbowl party without some sweet treats! 

Gahhh!!!  That would be a complete fumble!

Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Footballs

These sporty footballs are no-bake and taste just like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, maybe a little better. Shh... But it's just something about home-made.  It's the best!

Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Footballs

If you have football cookie cutters, that would work well to get those perfect football shapes you are going for.

If you don't, don't fret!  I just used a circle cookie cutter to cut out my shapes and then pinched the ends together and shaped them a little further to look like footballs.  They turned out pretty good!

Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Footballs

I got 16 party footballs out of this recipe, but you could make them smaller and get more cute mini footballs, so it's up to you what will work for your needs.  You can always make more.  These took about 5 minutes to shape out.

I like putting them in the freezer after I cut them out and let them firm up about 5 minutes before dipping them in the chocolate.  Then after I dip them, I put them back in the freezer for another 5 minutes for the chocolate to firm.

Then pipe the frosting on top for the football to get that adorable football stitching.  This is the same recipe I used on these Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs for Easter Time.

Home-made Chocolate Peanut Butter Footballs

Kim Lange
These footballs will be kicking it at your Superbowl Party! Reese's Peanut Butter Cup copy-cat recipe! Yum!!!
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Ingredients
  

Footballs

  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • ¼ cup unsalted butter
  • ¼ cup light brown sugar
  • 1 ¾ cups powdered sugar , add more if needed
  • dash salt optional

Chocolate Shell

  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening

Stitching

  • Vanilla Frosting

Instructions
 

  • Line a baking sheet with wax paper and set aside.
  • In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the peanut butter, butter, and brown sugar and heat until melted stirring constantly. Mixture will bubble, so make sure you keep stirring. Remove from the heat.
  • Working quickly, add the powdered sugar a little at a time, mixing until completely combined with the peanut butter mixture.
  • 2 Options: Using a tablespoon ice cream scoop or a heaping tablespoon, scoop out peanut butter mixture and shape into footballs or you can roll out your peanut butter dough about ½ inch thick and let cool a little so the peanut butter sets up a little, then use a football or round cookie cutter to make football shapes. If using a round cookie cutter, just smush the 2 opposite sides of the circle together and shape to resemble a football.
  • Place footballs on the baking sheet and refrigerate to allow them to set for about 30 minutes. If you're in a hurry, you could place them in the freeze for 5 - 10 minutes.
  • Once the footballs are set, melt the chocolate chips and shortening together in the microwave in 30-second increments, stirring after each, until completely melted, approximately 2 minutes or so.
  • Use a long-tined fork to flip each peanut butter football when dipping it in melted chocolate to cover, letting excess chocolate drip off and place on waxed paper.
  • Decorate the footballs with some piped frosting to resemble the stitching on a football.
  • Return the chocolate-covered peanut butter footballs to the refrigerator to allow the chocolate to set, about 30 minutes.
  • Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container until ready to serve.

Notes

I noticed when I use Jif I need more powdered sugar (2 cups) with Skippy I used 1 ¾ cup powdered sugar.
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  1. Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says

    January 30, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    This would definitely get me to go to any football party! Pinning!

  2. Ruby & Cake says

    February 03, 2018 at 3:41 pm

    I love these! They are adorable. The super bowl is not really paid much attention to over here in the uk except by American expats at a few select pubs but I love all the hype around it! And all the delicious snacks like these!

  3. Deepika|TheLoveOfCakes says

    February 03, 2018 at 7:30 am

    These are so cute and adorable Kim!!! Mini football treats for the game night is an awesome idea..And Chocolate and peanut butter is the best combo for these treats!

  4. ChocolaTess says

    February 01, 2018 at 10:04 pm

    They are a favorite here! Thank you Liz!!

  5. Liz says

    February 01, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    Whoa! I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off these yummy footballs! What a great idea!!

  6. Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says

    January 31, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    Your peanut butter footballs remind me of pb eggs (which are the best!!!!). Soooooo I would probably be guilty of not sharing these and eating them all myself hehehehe 🙂

  7. ChocolaTess says

    January 31, 2018 at 3:39 pm

    We do too! I have to hide them in the freezer or I'd eat them all in one day...I know me too well! Thank you Amy!

  8. ChocolaTess says

    January 31, 2018 at 3:38 pm

    Definitely would be good Heather! 🙂 Thank you!!

  9. heather (delicious not gorgeous) says

    January 31, 2018 at 1:58 pm

    oooh these look so festive! i'm a sucker for dark chocolate. so i'd probably do dark chocolate pb cups (:

  10. Amy (Savory Moments) says

    January 31, 2018 at 12:15 pm

    These are super adorable and a fun idea! We'd love them in our house and eat them up!

  11. Maria | kitchenathoskins says

    January 31, 2018 at 1:36 am

    I'm so glad that you've shared a sweet teat for the game day Kim., such a refreshing change to all those wings and nachos:) And you are so right, it ain't a party without sweet treats. These are ultimate perfection!!! I have a peanut allergic kid at home so peanut treats for us. But, it looks so amazing and I bet it tastes too:)

  12. Katherine | Love In My Oven says

    January 30, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    These are adorable! Plus, peanut butter cups are my all-time favorite so I'd be eating a million of these before game time!!!

  13. ChocolaTess says

    January 29, 2018 at 12:44 pm

    Thank you Kelsie! I hardly have any sport related treats on here, so here's to footballs! 🙂

  14. Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen says

    January 28, 2018 at 8:05 pm

    OH MY GOSH! I love this! Peanut butter cups are my favorite but I never would have thought to make my own, in the shape of footballs no less. Brilliant! And delicious!

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