Football Cupcakes

Super Bowl spreads are often dominated by savory choices: game day snacks like pigs in a blanket and party dips, and apps like classic buffalo wings and nachos. Add a touch of sweet to your savory spread with these festive (and adorable) football cupcakes. With a chocolate cupcake base, green buttercream (for the grass, of course), and chocolate-covered strawberries, these sweet treats will win your game day spread, no matter how your team is doing.

The footballs.
Many recipes for football cupcakes create the shape with piped icing, but we decided to switch it up by adding another one of our favorite desserts onto these cupcakes; who doesn't love a two-in-one treat? Chocolate-covered strawberries piped with icing create our footballs that sit on top of bright green piped buttercream frosting. So simple to create, you don't need to have mad frosting skills to make these mini footballs.

Cupcake and icing variations.
The only real requirement to these cupcakes are the strawberry footballs—the rest is up to you. Not a chocolate fan? Feel free to switch it out for your preferred box mix or favoritecupcake recipe (our vanilla cupcake would be a classic choice if that's more your thing). If you don't like buttercream, feel free to swap it for the cream cheese icing in our red velvet cupcakes recipe.

Looking for more Super Bowl desserts? Try our festive football cookies, football brownies and fantasy fudge (if you need to take a break from footballs).

If you're looking to stay on-theme, we've got plenty of savory showstoppers for you too: our football field dip and pigskin in a blanket are winners at every game day celebration.

Made these? Let us know how it went in the comments below!