SNICKERS Rice Crispy Treat Football Recipe for Game Day (2024)

Posted: Aug 18, 2014 · Updated: Mar 1, 2024 · By Chrysa

Rice Krispies and Snickers combine in this delicious game day treat shaped like a football. It’s the perfect football party dessert.

It’s getting to be that time of year. No, I don’t mean autumn, back-to-school, or the soon-to-be-hereHalloween. I’m referring to Football Time!

I may havementioned in the past that while I really have zero interest in the game of football itself, I LOVE a good football party.

It’s just another reason to entertain and it’s a whole new party theme to work with! Football parties also mean comfort food and yummy treats that make everyone happy.

Of course, CHOCOLATE is one of those foods that can make a lot of smiles, so I was happy to put on my chocolate recipes thinking cap and come up with a football-themed dessert recipe using SNICKERS® candy bars!

To get started, I headed to my local Sam’s Club to stock up on a 48 count box ofSNICKERS®. I needed to have enough to make my recipe, plus extras for those who just wanted straight-up chocolate candy bars. While I was there, I also grabbed a 105 Count Variety Bag. That way we had a few different MARS Candytreats to satisfy different appetites.

So, to get ready for game day, I created a super cute and SUPER deliciousSNICKERS Rice Crispy Treat Football Recipe to add some fun and some flavor to the party.

It takes a classic recipe and throws in a couple of extra chocolatey twists to amp up the chocolate goodness. In my opinion there is no such thing as too much chocolate!

SNICKERS Rice Crispy Treat Football Recipe

(See recipe card below for ingredient amounts and full instructions.)

INGREDIENTS:

• butter
• marshmallows
• cocoa flavored crisp rice cereal
• SNICKERS® bars
• white decorator icing tube

How to Make a Chocolate Rice Krispies Treat Football:

• Start out by chopping the SNICKERS® bars into small pieces about 1/4″ across. (They are easier to melt when they’re small.)

• Melt the butter over low heat in a large saucepan. Add the marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Turn off heat.

• Add in the cereal and SNICKERS® bars. Stir until the cereal is well coated. Turn out the mixture onto a large cookie sheet coated with cooking spray.
• Let it cool for a minute, butter your hands and shape into a football. (I used part of the mixture to make additional small football shapes.)

• Using decorator icing, pipe the laces onto your football.

So, I loved the way the football turned out with that nice brown football color, but what is even better is that ittasted AWESOME!

It was seriously so good that I was really glad I made the extra mini footballs because that meantI had some set asidetoeat all by myself!

If you don’t necessarily want a big centerpiece dessert for your party, you can make lots of little footballs instead so that they can be just grabbed and eaten. We simply used a knife to cut apart our big football.

To add extra treats to our dessert spread, I served up lots of full size SNICKERS bars, as well as the Twix, M&Ms, Milky Way and 3 Musketeers bars from the 105 count variety bag in cute little metal buckets that I picked up at the craft store. They can be easily refilled to make sure you never run out of chocolate!