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The ultimate football puppy chow! Cheer on your favorite team with this game day or super bowl snack recipe!
We’re serving up another easy football snack! The football bark we shared last week is what inspired this football puppy chow! Who knew almonds could make such cute footballs?!
There will probably be more football almonds from now on because they are just so cute and I think my appreciation for almonds skyrocketed!
Football Puppy Chow is perfect for Super Bowl
We took everyone’s beloved party snack (puppy chow!) and football-ified it. I am also pretty confident that almost anything can be football-ified (this word should be added to the dictionary, btw!) and in case you need a little convincing check out these 18 football shaped desserts!
Maybe I should start offering my football-fying services – I’m sure someone would pay money for me to come in and football-ify everything in there house – I’d just throw football almonds everywhere! Haha, kidding.
Ingredients
- chex cereal
- green candy melts
- oil (for melting)
- creamy peanut butter
- powdered sugar
- chocolate chips
- almonds
- small batch of royal icing
How to make football puppy chow / muddy buddies
If you’re a pro at making regular puppy chow, you’ll be a pro at football puppy chow too because it only requires one basic change.. green candy melts! If candy melts are new to you, they are the best invention ever. They are colored chocolate wafers that are super easy to melt, making them great for dipping, coating or sprucing up puppy chow :)
If you’re having a difficult time finding Wilton’s candy melts, I’d suggest looking at Walmart or Michaels. Both of those stores carry Wilton products and should have them, otherwise Amazon green candy melts.
The brown puppy chow follows the standard puppy chow recipe, however I didn’t add a ton of powdered sugar because I wanted them to still remain brown and NOT become all white. So go easy on the powdered sugar.
The green puppy chow follows the standard recipe too but instead of chocolate chips, use green candy melts!
How to turn almonds into footballs
To make the football almonds, use a small amount of royal icing to draw on the football stitches. Let the royal icing harden before adding the almonds to the puppy chow.
I like to use a squeeze bottle when drawing on the stitches, that way I have more control over the icing.
Extra add-ins..
Add in white, green or brown m&m’s if you’d like!
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Football Puppy Chow
Ingredients
Green Puppy Chow
- 4 cups chex cereal
- 1 cup green candy melts, like Wilton brand
- ½ tbsp vegetable oil
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
Brown Puppy Chow
- 4 cups chex cereal
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- ½ tbsp vegetable oil
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
Add ins
- Football almonds – whole almonds and small batch of royal icing: 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1/2 tsp meringue powder, 1/2 tbsp water
- White, green or brown m&ms
Instructions
To make the royal icing
- Combine the powdered sugar, meringue powder, and water in a mixing bowl and mix with an electric mixer until the icing has a matte appearance, about 2 minutes. You may need to add a little more water to get the right consistency. You don’t want the icing to be runny, but have a thicker consistency, but you don’t want it to be too thick where you can’t get it out of the squeeze bottle. Transfer the icing to a squeeze bottle or ziploc bag with one corner cut off.
- On each almond draw the center football stripe.
- Allow the royal icing to harden, 5-10 minutes before adding the football stitches.
- Draw 3 stitches on each almond.
- Allow the royal icing to harden completely before adding the footballs to the puppy chow.
Green Puppy Chow
- Measure out 4 cups of chex cereal into a gallon plastic bag.
- Combine the green candy melts, vegetable oil, and peanut butter in a pot over low heat on the stove. Occasionally stir with a spatula until the chocolate is smooth and melted.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the plastic bag. Zip it shut and shake to evenly coat the cereal with chocolate.
- Add 3/4 cup powdered sugar to the bag, zip, and shake again. If the puppy chow is too sticky, add more powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time.
- Set aside.
Brown Puppy Chow
- Measure out 4 cups of chex cereal into a gallon plastic bag.
- Combine the chocolate chips, vegetable oil, and peanut butter in a pot over low heat on the stove. Occasionally stir with a spatula until the chocolate is smooth and melted.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the plastic bag. Zip it shut and shake to evenly coat the cereal with chocolate.
- Add 3/4 cup powdered sugar to the bag, zip, and shake again. If the puppy chow is too sticky, add more powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time.
- In a large bowl or serving tray, combine the green and brown puppy chow. Add in the m&ms and the almond footballs.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Nutrition
Nutrition Disclosure
All nutritional values are approximate and provided to the reader as a courtesy. Changing ingredients and/or quantities will alter the estimated nutritional calculations.
Oh my goodness, this is seriously the cutest. And you can color it for your “team” too!! PINNED :)
Thanks friend! Go team go!
This puppy chow looks amazing! So appropriate for gameday- love all your other football themed eats :)
I gotta get into super bowl one way or other and I know I don’t really care about the actual game :)
Beth, this is so crazy cute, I can’t get over it. I am totally obsessed and HAVE to make this for the Super Bowl!
Yay!! I hope everyone loves it!
Football season needs to end because I can’t handle the cuteness. Also, definitely adding football-ified to my vocabulary.
Hahaha :)
Freaking adorable! Do you know about how long it took to draw the stitches on all the almonds? I feel like I would have to plan ahead for this one, but I love it.
About 10 minutes! But they need to harden between, so maybe give yourself 1 hour? The royal icing will be hard and ready to go then!
Muddy buddies are my all time favorite snack! Love this so much!
This is adorable! You are so creative!
Could you tell me how far in advance this can be made? Also, should it be stored in an air tight container? It looks so perfect for football parties
Hi Holly! You could make this puppy chow probably 2 days in advance and store it in an air tight container or ziploc bag! I would store the football almonds separately from the puppy chow until you’re ready to serve!
Could you please specify what kind of chex you used, corn or rice?
Hi Laurie! I used rice chex, but that’s just my preference!
This is so fun! I absolutely loved recreating it! The recipe was so easy to follow! Thanks for sharing!