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Peanut Butter Cup Footballs

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Peanut Butter Footballs

Makes 13 Peanut Butter Footballs

*1 1/2 tablespoons Butter, room temperature
*1/4 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
*1/2 cup Confectioners’ Sugar, more as needed
*1/8 cup Graham Cracker Crumbs
*Graham Cracker Crumbs, for forming footballs

In a small bowl mix together the butter, peanut butter, confectioners’ sugar and graham cracker crumbs, adding more confectioners’ sugar as need.

Form the mixture into football shape using Graham cracker crumbs as needed to shape footballs. Refrigerate formed footballs for 2 hours.

Dip footballs in melted chocolate flavored almond bark, removing football with a fork, shaking off excess chocolate, allowing to dry on wax paper and refrigerate until set. Add the football laces.

Football Laces

Place melted Vanilla flavored almond bark into pastry bag with small hole tip or plastic bag with smaller corner cut off, pipe on football laces. Allow to set and Enjoy!

Store in the refrigerator.

Also see our Football Party Food and Football Party

Also See Ganache Football Brownies

Enjoy!

Lindy

Oreo Football Helmets

~ lindy

Oreo Football Helmets

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Oreo Helmet Truffles

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*4-8 ounces Cream Cheese, use just enough to keep together in a ball

*Family Size bag of Oreo Cookies or around 36 Oreo Cookies, centers removed and discard

*dash of salt

*1-2 cups of dark or milk Ghirardelli chocolate chips (Add 1 tablespoon shortening to 1 cup of chocolate chips, melt in the microwave in glass cup with shortening in 30 second increments until melted.) OR *Dark Chocolate Melting Wafer, like Ghirardelli

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*Gold, Silver or White edible Sugar Pearl Candy Balls

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*White and Dark Chocolate Melting Wafers, like Ghirardelli, for piping numbers on footballs

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Blend in food processor Oreos until small crumbs.

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In a stand mixer cream together the cream cheese and Oreo crumbs until all the cream cheese is well combined into the crumbs and cream cheese is no longer visible.

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Roll Oreo mixture into teaspoon sized balls and then using a pencil length wise press into each Oreo ball making the indent for the helmet shape. Repeat for each helmet. Then place them onto wax paper and refrigerate for 2 hours then remove a few at a time from the fridge to dip into melted chocolate, dipping each ball individually into the melted chocolate and let dry/set on a piece of wax paper or Silpat. ( Add pearl balls, two balls per helmet, one on each side of the helmet. While chocolate is still wet.) Now refrigerate until chocolate is set and then pipe on football numbers if desired. Eat helmet truffles within a couple of days. 

Also see Southern Living Football Helmets

Enjoy!

Lindy