3 Easy Apps for Your Super Bowl Sunday

With the Super Bowl less than a week away, do you know what you’re bringing to your Super Bowl party? Today, I’m sharing three Pinterest approved appetizers. I’m sharing one healthy, one 3 ingredient (super easy) and one truly football themed recipe with you.

After several recipe blogs I’ve realized I’m not a food photographer – forgive me lol, but I hope you get the gist. Also, working food into football shapes was the hardest part of these recipes. Hopefully I can perfect that by next year.

I found each recipe through Pinterest and I’m going to share the original info as well.

Buffalo Chicken Zucchini Boats (the “healthy” one)

What You’ll Need

• 4 zucchini (I used 3 large)
• 1 lb ground chicken
• 1/2 cup buffalo WING sauce
• 1/2 packet ranch seasoning mix
• 8 oz bag shredded mozzarella
• 9X13 baking dish

**don’t make this mistake! I accidentally purchased hot sauce and not buffalo wing sauce. The boats still came out okay, but they were SUPER spicy and hot sauce is a thinner consistency than wing sauce.

How To:

• preheat oven to 400 degrees
• wash off zucchini and slice in half long ways
• with a small spoon, scoop out inside of zucchini (includes the seed area), this creates the “boat”
• place zucchini boats on greased baking dish
• in a medium size greased pan, cook the chicken until no longer pink
• after chicken is cooked, mix buffalo wing sauce and ranch sauce until combined.
• with a small spoon, fill zucchini boats with chicken mixture.

• top zucchini boat with mozzarella cheese
• cover dish with foil and place in the oven
• remove foil and cook for an additional 5 minutes.

**If you want to add a bit more to the recipe, you can add additional ranch or bleu cheese.

You can find the original recipe here from the instrupix blog. Also, give her a follow on Instagram, she shares a ton of great recipes @instrupix.

Pepperoni and Cheese Football (the “easy” one)

What You’ll Need:

• cracker cut cheese
• pepperoni
• wheat thins
• rectangular dish

How To:

• form a football shape with wheat thins diagonal on a rectangular plate
• place a cheese layer on top of wheat thins
• add a pepperoni layer on top of the cheese layer towards the center
• slice a piece of cheese for the laces of the football

**I really think my football would have looked better if I used a rectangular plate, but I only had a round plate. The hardest part was honestly getting the shape of the football!

Jalepeño Popper Football Cheese Ball (the “truly football themed” one)

What You’ll Need:

• 16 oz softened cream cheese
• 8 oz shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• 1/3 c chopped green onion
• 1/2 c diced pickled jalepeño peppers
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• pinch of salt
• 3 slices of bacon
• 1/3 cup panko breadcrumbs
• 3 TBSP fresh parsley
• 2-3 fresh jalepeños
• 1 slice mozzarella or white cheddar cheese

**we opted out of the jalepeño because I wanted Archie to be able to eat this one, too! Tasted great :).

How To:

• Mix softened cream cheese, cheddar cheese, pickled jalepeño garlic powder, salt and chopped green onions together in a medium sized bowl. I used a large fork to mix together, but a hand mixer would work as well.
• scoop out the mixture onto a cutting board and roll into a ball. Similar to pizza dough. Flatten the top of the ball mixture with a spatula and begin shaping it into football shape. To do this, I pressed down on the middle first and then began shaping the sides with the end of the spatula. Leaving a picture below.

• chop bacon into thin pieces and cook in a pan until brown and crispy
• sprinkle bacon bits onto cream cheese football
• wipe off pan used to cook bacon, but keep just a bit of the bacon grease on the pan and pour in the panko crumbs. Keep on medium – high heat until panko is brown and crispy
• sprinkle panko over top cream cheese football
• slice jalepeño and sprinkle over top football
• press all ingredients into cream cheese football
• slice a piece of cheese for laces
• serve with pretzel or cracker of your choice

You can find the original recipe here from the peas and crayons blog. Also give her a follow on Instagram, @peasandcrayons.

If you’re in need of a dessert and not an appetizer, check out my older blog post for a No Bake Reese’s Pie.

As always, send over your Super Bowl creations! I love to see these recipes come to life!