Football Cake Pops For the Super Bowl

Super Bowl Football Cake Pops

Given the time of year and my never unflappable zest for Cake Pop experimentation, I decided to take the Super Bowl Football Cake Pop challenge. Other than my short stint as a cheerleader, I’m relatively clueless about Football. Football Cake Pops: Why not? While I agree that Cake Pops and beer probably aren’t the best culinary match-up why not give it a try. Even if the men don’t like them, there are bound to be some desert loving women attending these football parties as well.

I chose to try out the Nutter Butter cake pop recipe this time. They even have the right color for a football. I think I either found the recipe on Bakerella’s site or maybe she just said they might be a good Cake Pop option. Just like the Oreo Cake Pop recipe, you start with a package of sandwich cookies, this time they happen to be peanut butter flavored but really any flavor will work. Add the cookies to your food processor (I usually separate the two halves first) and blend until they become fine crumbs. Pour the crumbs into a large mixing bowl and add one 8 ounce brick of room temperate cream cheese. Mix together with your favorite wooden or other spoon. I promise it will eventually all come together. It will look like moist cookie dough when you’re finished. I then took a tablespoon sized scoop (looks like a mini ice cream scooper) and made about a million little scoops of the dough.

Nutter Butter Cake Pop dough

Once I finished scooping all the dough out onto a Silpat lined cookie sheet (make sure the pan you’re using fits in your freezer) I rolled each one by hand to form a little ball.

Rolling out Nutter Butter Cake Pops

I then popped them into the freezer for about 20 minutes, just to firm them up a little. While I was waiting for them to firm up a bit I melted my candy coating and got the lollipop sticks ready. I chose to use chocolate coating with some vanilla candy coating thrown in to lighten the color a little (more like a football). Besides, what goes better with peanut butter than chocolate? Twenty minutes later I removed the yummy little peanut butter balls from the freezer and rolled by hand into a football-ish shape.

Rolling Nutter Butter Cake Pops into a Football Shape

Just work with them a little, you’ll get the hang of it. Once you’re happy with the shape, take a lollipop stick and dip it into the candy coating about 1/4”, then push it into the footballs a little more than half way. Once this step is complete, place them back into the freezer for another 15-20 minutes. Remove from freezer and candy coat the entire Cake Pop.

Candy Coating the Super Bowl Cake Pops

I place my Cake Pops in a Styrofoam block while they dry. After the candy coating set, I added the additional football details with white candy coating. I used a squeeze bottle to do the detail work, but I suppose you could also just dip a toothpick in the candy and draw the details on.