Looking for the most delicious snack to serve for a game day? Well these chocolate peanut butter footballs are the perfect treat! Deliciously creamy and taste just like a peanut butter cup, and the best part is they require no baking at all!
Typically I would make these peanut butter balls for parties and gatherings (before Covid) and they were always a hit! Making them into chocolate peanut butter footballs makes them perfect for game day!
The ingredients you need are pretty simple.
- Peanut Butter (crunchy or smooth)
- Powdered Sugar
- Vegan Butter
- Vanilla
- Puffed Rice Cereal
- Vegan Chocolate Chips
- Coconut Oil
Do I refrigerate or freeze the peanut butter footballs before dipping?
Chilling can be done in the refrigerator or the freezer. The point of chilling the peanut butter footballs is to get the chocolate to harden faster, so they don’t fall apart when dipped in the warm chocolate.
What kind of peanut butter do I use?
You can use any peanut butter, I prefer using one that doesn’t have any extra sugars added. In in
What are the best vegan butter brands?
These are a few of the vegan butters I love to use while baking, Earth Balance seems to be the most common brand I see in stores. Miyoko’s and Melt I usually find in stores more like Whole Foods and Sprouts.
Which brands of chocolate chips are vegan?
Vegan chocolate chips taste no different than regular chocolate chips and melt just as good. You can find these brands at almost any grocery store on the baking isle next to the rest of the chocolate chips!
How To Make Chocolate Covered Footballs
In a large bowl, add your peanut butter and melted vegan butter together.
Stir in your vanilla
Add in sifted powdered sugar and mix together
With your hands, mix in the Puffed rice cereal.
Form about an inch long ball and pinch at the ends to form a small football shape.
Once all the footballs have been shaped, put them on a parchment lined cookie sheet and store in the fridge or freezer until the have hardened up.
In a small pot on the stove, heat the vegan chocolate chips up and stir the chocolate continuously until fully melted. Add about a tablespoon of coconut oil and stir.
Take one football at a time and dip in the chocolate with a spoon, rolling it around until footballs are fully covered in chocolate.
After all footballs have been dipped, Lay them out onto a cookie rack until excess chocolate has dripped off the bottom. Transfer to a parchment lined cookie sheet.
Continue this process until all of them are finished and store in the fridge/freezer until your chocolate peanut butter footballs have hardened up.
How Do I Make The Icing For The Laces On The Footballs?
Using your mixer, add in your sifted powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla and mix on low speed.
Add the icing to a small piping bag with a small round tip.
How To Add The Laces To The Footballs
Pipe a line vertically down your football, then add small lines across your one big vertical line.
That’s it!
Store the chocolate covered footballs in the fridge until you’re ready to serve.
Enjoy!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Footballs
Looking for the most delicious snack to serve for a game day? Well these chocolate peanut butter footballs are the perfect treat! Deliciously creamy and taste just like a peanut butter cup, and the best part is they require no baking at all!
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Peanut Butter Crunchy or Smooth
- 1/4 Cup Vegan Butter
- 2/3 Cup Powdered Sugar Sifted (Can add more sugar if more sweetness is preferred )
- 1 TSP Vanilla Extract
- 4 Cups Puffed Rice Cereal
- 1 TBSP Coconut Oil
- 1 10 oz Bag Vegan Chocolate Chips
Frosted Football Stitches
- 2 1/4 Cup Powdered Sugar Sifted
- 1/2 TSP Vanilla Extract
- 3 TBSP Non Dairy Milk
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add your peanut butter and melted vegan butter together.
- Stir in your vanilla
- Add in sifted powdered sugar and mix togetherWith your hands, mix in the puffed rice cereal.
- Form about an inch long ball and pinch at the ends to form a small football shape.
- Once all the footballs have been shaped, put them on a parchment lined cookie sheet and store in the fridge or freezer until the have hardened up.
- In a small pot on the stove, heat the vegan chocolate chips up and stir the chocolate continuously until fully melted.
- Add about a tablespoon of coconut oil and stir. Take one football at a time and dip in the chocolate with a spoon, rolling it around until footballs are fully covered in chocolate.
- After all footballs have been dipped, Lay them out onto a cookie rack until excess chocolate has dripped off the bottom. Transfer to a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Continue this process until all of them are finished and store in the fridge/freezer until your chocolate peanut butter footballs have hardened up.
Making the Icing Stitches
- Using your mixer, add in your sifted powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla and mix on low speed.
- Add the icing to a small piping bag with a small round tip.
- Pipe a line vertically down the football, then add small lines across your one big vertical line.
- That's it!
