Crowd-Pleasing Super Bowl Food & Bar Ideas

It's gonna be a battle! Stay on the sofa and away from the stove with easy ideas for a winning Super Bowl party buffet. Kick off the party with a fun cheese "football" appetizer, keep 'em happy at halftime with chili bread bowls and tackle dessert with a fanrageous cake. Official Super Bowl XLVII plates and decorations will make your bash a VIP event! Read on for a sweet game plan.

Even if it's the two-minute warning before your Super Bash starts, you'll still have time to make these super-easy football sammies. We used pumpernickel rolls, turkey, cheddar, lettuce and tomatoes for ours, but you can use any fixings you'd like. The key to making them "football" sandwiches is the carefully applied cream cheese stitching on the top. Your winning party streak remains unbroken!

Watching one slobber-knocker after another sure can work up a fan's appetite! To prep these irresistible chili bowls, all you need is your favorite chili recipe and eight to twelve large sourdough rounds hollowed out with a serrated knife. Spoon the chili into the bread bowls and top with shredded cheese and chives. Simply delicious! Just be sure to get out of the way when your hungry crowd rushes the buffet table!

You won't miss any action (or cool commercials) when you set out this make-ahead football cheese ball. Simply combine equal parts cream cheese and velveeta in a mixing bowl and blend with an electric mixer until smooth. Refrigerate for several hours then mold into a football shape, coat with nuts and top with sliced pimento arranged in a stitching pattern. Serve with veggies and crackers – and remind guests not to hog the ball!

While your team is scoring points, make a touchdown of your own with these crowd-pleasing pigs in a blanket. Add your own spin to these bite-size appetizers by brushing the tops with butter and sprinkling them with poppy seeds, sesame seeds and herbs before popping them in the oven. Serve them on a football party platter and watch out – you might get tackled by a guest on their way to grab one of these tasty tidbits!

When the stakes are high and the guests are hungry, try out this winning move! To make these football pizza pockets, cut out football shapes from homemade or packaged pastry dough and fill with your favorite ingredients, like mozzarella, pepperoni and pizza sauce. Slice some "laces" into the top before baking and serve with a side of marinara for dipping. Touchdown!

This grab-and-go snack will make sure neither you nor your guests miss a minute of the big game! Layer slices of turkey, cherry tomatoes, avocado and pepper jack cheese in between mini squares of wheat bread and run through with a football or bamboo party pick. Keep them close to the TV so your guests can get their grub on while watching the game.

This edible football field matches the one on the TV screen! To make this appealing appetizer, use guacamole as the playing field with salsa and nacho cheese for the end zones. Pipe on sour cream to mark the yard lines and add some cherry tomato "players," then make it the star player on your snack table with tortilla chips for dipping. Serve with Football Frenzy tableware and watch the fans go wild!

There's no bigger NFL game than the Super Bowl! So go with officially licensed NFL plates emblazoned with the logos of the teams that made it to the ultimate football event. Whether your favorite team made it this far or not, watching the Super Bowl is more fun when you take sides! Browse our Super Bowl Party Ideas gallery for inspiration on decking out your house and your crowd in team colors and cheer gear to get everyone in the spirit!

Washing down wings and high-fiving is all the more fun when the bar has a football theme! Kick off this idea with Super Bowl party gotta-haves like team logo bottle jerseys and drink cozies, yard glasses printed with yard lines and party cups in football themes and team colors! Add a party tub full of ice to keep drinks chilly.

Can't make it to New Orleans? Set up your own Superdome face-off with a line up of bottled or canned beverages suited up in team colors. Chill the bottles well before the party, and the "jerseys" will keep them cold in the stands through the first quarter! To win over the cocktail crowd, browse our New Orleans-Themed Drink Ideas and celebrate like you're in the Big Easy!

Super Bowl food is all about spicy and salty fare, but no need to get an incomplete for dessert! The big winner at your Super Bowl party might just be these tasty treats that let you show off your team loyalty with mini helmets as cupcake toppers. To make the frosting, use green icing color and a special "grass" icing tip. Touchdown!

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!

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.

Transform a basic sheet cake into the star of your Super Bowl food buffet! Complete with turf and helmet-clashing action, this football cake is easy to make with a Wilton cake decorating tip specially designed to make grass motifs easy to create and our mini football helmets emblazoned with NFL team logos – we have all 32 teams. If you don't want to fiddle with fondant, just use a white icing tube to write letters and numbers.