3 Easy Football Treats
3 sweet football treats for the big game: An iced sugar cookie made to look like a football stadium, fudgy brownies cut and decorated to look like footballs, and lollipops made into penalty flag party favors!
Makes 12-18 cookies, 6 brownies, and lollipop yield varies upon preference
Things you'll need
Football Stadium Cookies
Ingredients- ¾ cup almond meal
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks salted butter, room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- Large mixing bowl
- Medium mixing bowl
- Hand mixer
- Whisk
- Rubber spatula
- Square cookie cutter
- Parchment lined baking sheet
- Rolling pin
- Bench flour
- Plastic wrap
- Decorating bags
- White & green royal icing
- #1 & #2 decorating tips
- Rainbow nonpareils
Fudgy Football Brownies
Ingredients- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ⅓ cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- Medium mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Rubber spatula
- Metal spatula
- 8 x 8 inch metal pan lined with parchment paper
- Baking spray
- White royal icing in a decorating bag fitted with a #2 tip
- Football cookie cutter
Penalty Flag Pops
Equipment- Assortment of lollipops
- Yellow napkins
- Scissors
- Yellow ribbon
Football Stadium Cookies
Football Stadium Cookies- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, almond meal, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt.
- In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Beat in the vanilla and almond extracts.
- On low speed, beat in the flour mixture until combined.
- Shape the dough into 2 discs and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 to 24 hours.
- Roll out each dough to ¼ inch thick. Cut out cookies using square cookie cutter and place them 1 inch apart on baking sheets.
- Bake for 12 to 13 minutes. Allow to cool before decorating.
Time to decorate!
- Use green royal icing to pipe a rectangle on the middle third of the square (PICTURE at 4:05). Allow to fully dry.
- Pipe white royal icing with a #2 tip into rectangles above and below the green. While the white royal icing is still wet, sprinkle on rainbow nonpareils until covered.
- Add the yard line details with white royal icing and a #1 tip.
Fudgy Football Brownies
Fudgy Football Brownies- Preheat oven to 350ºF and then grease and line a 8 by 8-inch metal baking pan.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt.
- Add oil, milk, vanilla, and egg and then whisk until well combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly.
- Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean, 35 to 40 minutes.
- Let the brownies cool in the pan then remove.
- Once brownies are fully cooled, use a cookie cutter to cut out footballs.
- Use white royal icing to pipe football laces on each brownie (PICTURE at 7:14).
Penalty Flag Pops
Penalty Flag Pops- Cut ribbon into pieces a few inches long.
- Place a lollipop at the center of a fully opened napkin. Wrap the napkin around the head of the lollipop and tie in place with a ribbon strand (PICTURE at 8:42).
- Snip the extra ribbon on the ends and fluff out the napkin. NOTE: You can use whatever candy you’d like, as long as it can be gathered together. Examples are: jelly beans, chocolate nuts/raisins, etc.
- TaDa! These easy yet impressive Football Treats give you plenty of time to enjoy the game!
