Super Bowl Party

This Super Bowl party has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SweetenTheSpread #CollectiveBias

In about six days, football fans everywhere will grab a mountain high plate of finger food, don their favorite jersey, and shout profanities at the TV like it’s their job. Some might even say the first Sunday of February is just as much of an American holiday as the day we became our own nation.

Any excuse to get together and chow is a holiday, right?

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Super Bowl party food:

No matter if you find yourself at a Super Bowl party for the game or the commercials, this menu was created to keep all parties in front of the TV, not in the kitchen.

• BBQ meatballs
  • Pre-cooked, covered in BBQ in a slow cooker.
• Turkey and cheese (pepperjack, provolone, cheddar) mini sandwiches
  • Lunch meat and sliced cheese on buttered sweet rolls.
• Spinach and sausage dip
  • Absolutely worth the extra steps because it can be made days in advance.
• Black cherry and cream soda

And if the only food you care about is of the sweet variety, I have a special treat for both team chocolate and team fruity. I know how little attention fruity desserts get, so I made football themed Skittles sugar cookies. And yes, they taste exactly like the candies.

If you guys behave I will share the recipe just in time for Easter. Since Snickers is an Official Sponsor of Super Bowl 50, I am sharing my cookie recipe for team chocolate. They aren’t M&M’s cookies. The aren’t Snickers cookies. They aren’t peanut butter cookies. And they can’t be called caramel cookies. I had no idea what to call this hodge podge of sugary goodness, so they became known as trash can cookies. Not to be confused with garbage can. There’s a difference.

 Trash can cookie recipe:

• 1 cup + 2 TBSP flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 3.4oz box of vanilla pudding

Mix until blended and fluffy.

• 8 TBSP unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar

Beat on medium speed until well blended. Next, add and beat on medium speed until well combined:

• 1 large egg
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1.5 tsp vanilla

Stir in flour mix until smooth. Finally, add:

• 1/2 c caramels, cut into tiny pieces
• 1/2 c peanuts
• 1/2 c Snickers, cut into tiny pieces
• 1/2 c mini M&M’s

Drop the dough onto cookie sheets, about 2 inches apart. Bake 8-10 minutes, until the tops and edges are slightly brown. I recommend removing the cookies before they cool all of the way so the candy doesn’t stick to the cookie sheet. Ask me how I know to tell you this. Go ‘head, ask.

Super Bowl party decorations:

I created a football scoreboard out of a chalkboard and some football scrapbook paper.

I thought I would play up the big rivalry between team chocolate and team fruity with football bleachers lined in a variety of Snickers, M&M’s, Starburst, and Skittles.

And the final touch is something I’m pretty pleased with. I wanted the food containers to match the football tower I made a few years ago, so I pulled out the glue gun and got to work.

Football field bowl tutorial:

Measure the height of whatever dish you decide to use. (Mine was 3 inches.)

Cut a strip of artificial grass so it wraps completely around the dish and stands from whatever surface it is sitting on to the rim of the dish. Attach it to the dish with hot glue.

Using hot glue again, attach brown trim to the top of the artificial grass. Yes, you can do without the trim, but I thought the bowls looked unfinished without this detail.

That’s it! I think the extra 30 minutes (I made three.) improved the look of the table by leaps and bounds.

Now, if you didn’t think my Super Bowl party was worthy of a pin, I know you will find oodles of more football party ideas here.

I know this goes without saying, but I spend a lot of time at Target. And when I’m not at Target, I am on the Cartwheel app planning my next trip to Target. One stop shop, guys.

Do yourself a favor and grab your Super Snacks Cartwheel offer (1/17/16-2/6/16) before your next trip. Saving money is a good thing. It’s how I justify the adorable coral blanket resting on the back of my chair. And the clothespins adorned with the cutest Valentine’s Day details. And the…

You know how this ends.

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