Football Party Dessert Ideas

Hosting a football feast? Make it even more memorable with these dessert ideas that will get your football fans cheering. Kick off the festivities with football cake pops! Whether you start from scratch or bake from a box and a can of frosting, dip your cake pops in chocolate candy melts (sold at Party City stores) and pipe on white stitching, then display in a clear vase filled with candy, football favors or colorful paper shred. For play-by-play instructions, check out our Football Cake Pops and Recipe How-To.

Guests will be calling a timeout to snack on this dessert winner! Football helmet cupcakes are a fun and easy way to personalize your football party food – simply pick your team from our wide selection of NFL team logo mini helmets and use as a cupcake topper. To make the grass frosting, add green icing color to your favorite icing recipe and pipe onto cupcakes using a small round tip from a cake decorating set.

Rev up your guests for the fourth quarter with these football field-goal cupcakes! Create playing-field turf by dyeing your frosting with green icing color and decorating with a specially designed, multi-hole tip. "Glue" pretzel sticks together with fondant or gum paste to form an edible field goal, then position on top of your cupcakes with a football icing decoration in front. And the kick is good!

Whether your group is celebrating victory with a sugar high or needs a sweet treat to numb the pain of defeat, these football whoopie pies will be a fun addition to your football feast. Make your favorite chocolate cookie batter and form oblong football shapes on a non-stick cookie sheet (use the back of a spoon to more accurately shape the batter), then pop them in the oven. Sandwich a frosting filling between two cooled cookies, pipe white laces on the top and serve on football tableware to your hungry team of football fans.

Turn whistle favors into cupcake decorations in the colors of the competing teams so your guests can support their favorite team (or chow down on the competition). Use colored cupcake liners and sprinkles as an easy way to complete the team colors look.

Show your team spirit with team logo cake pops! Use your favorite cake pop recipe or take a look at our Team Logo Cake Pops and Recipe How-To. We chose the bold blue of the New York Giants and piped their team logo in bright red on the front. Set up a fun display by arranging your cake pops in a football team container with a block of Styrofoam inside covered in paper shred or candy.

It's the final quarter of the game – dessert time! Give yourself a break by whipping up these delish football cupcakes for your team of fans. Bake your favorite cupcake recipe, frost with white icing, add some green icing "grass" with small round piping tip, and "spike" football icing decorations on top for the winning touchdown of your football party!