Football Cookies
These Football Cookies are salty, crispy pretzel sandwiches stuffed with peanut butter cups, dipped in chocolate and decorated with laces makes the perfect sweet treat for football fans.
Football Cookies
Are you looking for a fun way to celebrate the super bowl or cheer on your favorite team during football season?
These easy to make cookies are delicious, super easy to make, and have a cute football shape without using a football shaped cookie cutter.
I’m always on the hunt for big game day treats. Not only do I love all the savory appetizers like meatballs and dips, I love something sweet to finish out all the non-stop snacking.
And these football cookies are the perfect treat to do so.
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Ingredients Needed
Pretzels – I like the square pretzels. Every so often they sell football shaped pretzels.
Peanut butter cups – Use the miniature cups for best results.
Chocolate – I use a combination of semisweet and white chocolate. Use melting bars or wafers instead of chocolate chips if possible.
Coconut oil – Substitute vegetable shortening.
Tools Needed
Baking sheet – I like to have a wire rack on mine for when I did the cookies in chocolate.
Parchment paper – You can also use a silicone baking mat. I don’t recommend wax paper.
Piping bag – Use a frosting piping bag, a zip top bag, or a squeeze bottle for easier drizzling.
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How to Make Football Cookies
First: On a parchment or silicone lined baking sheet, place 20 pretzels. Slice the peanut butter cups in half horizontally. Place a half on each pretzel.
Place in the 300F oven and bake cookies for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven. Press down slightly to flatten and get the pretzels to stick. Cool completely.
Second: Melt the semi-sweet chocolate and the coconut oil in a medium bowl in the microwave. Heat in 30-second intervals and stir often.
Dip the pretzel sandwiches in the melted chocolate, covering them completely. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet or tray. Once they are all dipped, place in the fridge to set the chocolate.
Third: When they are set, melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Pipe the laces on the football cookies. Chill in the fridge to set the laces. Serve!
For the full recipe and detailed instructions, please refer to the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
How long do they last?
These easy football cookies will last up to 2 weeks at room temperature. Be sure to store in an airtight container for best results.
Do they need to be refrigerated?
These are best kept out of the refrigerator. They chocolate will form condensation will form on the decorated cookies if you chill them and the bring them out onto the counter.
I only recommend chilling them right after you dip them to set the chocolate.
Can I freeze them?
I do not recommend freezing them as they chocolate will separate and appear ashy.
What to Serve with Peanut Butter Football Cookies
- Dessert Nachos
- Crack Pretzels
- Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars
- Sour Cream Dips
- Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels
- No Bake Peanut Butter Bars
- Spicy Crackers
Tapas Tips & Tricks
- Start with plenty of space to work.
- Let your peanut butter pretzels cool completely before dipping or they will slide apart.
- Don’t like white chocolate, opt for royal icing, white icing, or white frosting.
- Melting wafers work better than chips. They have stabilizers in them to help them hold their shape so they don’t melt as smooth.
- Use a dipping fork for easier dipping and covering cookies.
- Dip the cookies in colored white chocolate to match your team colors or make themed cookies.
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These adorable Football Cookies are the perfect dessert for game day parties!
Football Cookies
Ingredients
- 40 square pretzels
- 10 mini peanut butter cups
- 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil or vegetable shortening
- 1 ounce of white chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300F.
Make the peanut butter pretzels.
- On a parchment or silicone lined baking sheet, place 20 pretzels.
- Cut Reese’s mini cups in half horizontally.
- Place a half on each pretzel.
- Place in the oven for 5 minutes.
- When they are done, remove from oven and top with the remaining 20 pretzels.
- Press down slightly to flatten and get the pretzels to stick.
- Cool completely.
Dip the Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites
- Melt the semi-sweet chocolate and the coconut oil in a microwave safe bowl in the microwave.
- Heat in 30-second intervals and stir often.
- Dip the pretzel sandwiches in the melted chocolate, covering them completely.
- Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet or tray.
- Once they are all dipped, place in the fridge to set the chocolate.
Turn the Cookies into Footballs
- When they are set, melt the white chocolate in the microwave.
- Pipe the laces on the football cookies.
- Chill in the fridge to set the laces.
- Serve!
- You can store the Reese’s Pretzel Football Cookies in an airtight container for up to a week.
Notes
- Start with plenty of space to work.
- Let your peanut butter pretzels cool completely before dipping or they will slide apart.
- Don’t like white chocolate, opt for royal icing, white icing, or white frosting.
- Melting wafers work better than chips. They have stabilizers in them to help them hold their shape so they don’t melt as smooth.
- Use a dipping fork for easier dipping and covering cookies.
- Dip the cookies in colored white chocolate to match your team colors or make themed cookies.
Nutrition
{Originally posted 01/25/17 – photos and recipe notes updated to improve reader experience 02/02/23}
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These Pretzel cookies look delicious, I’m going to try this recipe
Delicious, quick and easy. thank you!
Delicious, quick and easy. thank you!
Super cute the way you decorated these. The flavors are delicious and I can’t wait to make them for my family.
Super cute the way you decorated these. The flavors are delicious and I can’t wait to make them for my family.
These are sooo sexy J!! Perfect for Gameday. Loving these babe..
I could live on pretzels. In fact, when I first moved to NYC I kind of did. My favorite dinner (this is so embarrassing now) was pretzels dipped in jarred tomato sauce. This was my fiscally responsible move. In order to save money for drinks.
When we visited NYC a few years ago my son only ate soft pretzels from the street vendors. He lived on them for a week. That and tasty hand pulled noodles from Chinatown!
I have been searching for something cute for an upcoming SB party. At first I was going to try cake pops but SIGH, that requires more effort than I’d like. Haha. To my delight, you’ve shared this recipe and now I know what I’m doing!! These are so fun, and I love that they’re so simple to make.
I feel the same about cake pops. I always get jealous of those that are so perfectly round. I just bought a mold to make them round so I can do better next time. I hope you liked the brownies!
I have two boys and the pretzels run out way too quickly in my house as well. Luckily they eat the whole pretzel and not just the salt. This is such a cute idea of making these cookies. A little salt and a little sweet is perfect!
You are lucky on that front!
You certainly had me at dipped in chocolate and stuffed with reese’s cups!! Who can resist! What a huge hit this would be for game day or any party!
Reese pretzel football cookies looks really cute. Love this salty sweet chocolaty treat, I will eat few of them at a stretch for a sure.
Totally!
I have to say, I love everything about this post! I don’t watch football, but I would totally make these to eat while everyone else focuses on the game!
You might need some big pockets:)
A) Who doesn’t love peanut butter and chocolate?
B) Add Pretzels and who’s going to turn this treat down?
C) Decorated like footballs? Oh my gosh – Touchdown!
D) You ate a licked pretzel? … eww, but then again, what parent hasn’t done similar?
E) Pet stores, TSC or Farm & Fleet do sell salt blocks… that would make a crazy funny gag gift for Conner.
I’m saving this recipe for the easy, yummy treats and for the fact that when I need reminded my life isn’t totally insane alone. 37 minutes … emptied an entire bag of pretzels. Wow.
I think I will get him a big one and hang from his ceiling!
Such a cute treat!! I absolutely love chocolate and pretzels – that sweet and salty flavor gets me everytime. I’m sure these would be dangerously addictive. 🙂
Totally!
What a great little treat for game day. Chocolate, peanut butter and pretzels. How can you go wrong with that. These sound totally addictive. They would not last long here. Certainly gone way before the game was done.
Mine were gone during pre-game warmup!
Oh! Your son is hilarious! I can’t believe he just licks the salt off – but then again, I kind of can. These treats look delicious – glad you went back to the store so you could share these with us!
I would not let anyone else eat those gross pretzels. Plus the salt factor would have been gone!
So, yeah, those football cookies are officially the cutest thing I’ve seen today. So cute, yet simple, and playful. These are sure to make any football game more fun.
I think you can make them into any ball for any sport:) Tennis is next!
These look so good – I love the salty-sweet combination of pretzels and chocolate, and the peanut butter cup makes it even better! Your son is hilarious! Eating a bag of his leftover salt-licked pretzels – ha! I can’t wait to see what kind of crazy food things my toddler does as he grows up.
Make sure you write them down. I forget all the weird things he has done that I was mad at at the time but now find so funny!
Kids would do the silliest things! Maybe I should not ask my boys to empty their trash cans!!
These look so cute and delicious. Perfect for game nights.
I’m sure that they are not as messy as mine!
I love pretzels also..Glad to here none harmed! This is such a cute idea and would make the perfect Football game appetizer 🙂
Thanks so much Stephanie! They were a hit at our game day!
Aww aren’t these so cute..! would be perfect for play dates in my home.
For big kids and small kids!
Awww this pretzel cookies looks sooo cute! Love them! Perfect for any party. Thanks for sharing this recipe. Pinning this 😉
Oh my goodness those mini bites look so detectable!…Kids will go crazy looking at these..thanks for the idea!
Thanks so much! I hope the kids like them!
These are really impressive looking chocolate coated cookies. I have been “scared” to make my own chocolates, but recently made my first ever batch of chocolate coated bourbon balls. Now I am hooked. Looks like I have found my second recipe to try.
These are absolutely, 100% happening at our Superbowl party! We can’t keep enough stock of peanut butter in this house. And I can’t keep my hands off a sweet + salty snack!