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Win the day with these Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Footballs! These sporty footballs are no-bake and taste just like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, except these are homemade!

Homemade is the best! You may want to even dive into this Oreos Cookies & Cream Football Dip or these 18 Sweet & Easy Superbowl Party Desserts when you’re looking for game day treats.

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BTW…Super bowl is this weekend and you could make these chocolate covered peanut butter footballs for your Superbowl party! Of course, these football candies are also wonderful for any football parties or when you tailgate. Total touchdown!

It’s not a Superbowl party without some sweet treats! Gahhh!!! That would be a complete fumble!

Cookie Cutter Tool Ideas For 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 have a cookie cutter to use, 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 and they are such a fun treat!

Ingredients You Need

Football game day treats

creamy peanut butter
unsalted butter
brown sugar
powdered sugar , add more if needed
salt, optional

Chocolate Shell

milk chocolate chips
semi-sweet chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips
vegetable shortening

Stitching

Vanilla Frosting or could use white chocolate chips to melt

Instructions How to Make Homemade Peanut Butter Footballs!

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 game day treats in the refrigerator in an airtight container until ready to serve.

Party Football Candy Tips!

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 or place in fridge for 30 minutes or so.

More Variations For You Game Day Treats

Add a scoop of peanut butter protein powder to your peanut butter dough – just because we all seem to be obsessed with getting protein in our diet, so we try to sneak it anywhere we can. Just add a little less powdered sugar in the recipe.
Like a little texture? Add some rice krispies, puffed quinoa, or pretzels in the peanut butter dough.

Don’t drop the ball! Make these Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Footballs for the win!

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