Easy to Make Chocolate Football Cake recipe (2024)

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If you loves football and want to celebrate with friends and family for the upcoming super bowl or any event than this chocolate football cake is for you!

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Today we’re making a football shaped chocolate SNICKERS® cake to celebrate national chocolate cake day and the NFL playoffs!

We’re having a big football party to celebrate the Super Bowl andI know this cake will be a hit! You can make this cake for birthdays and other occasions of course! Anyone who loves the sport will love this chocolate football cake! It’s the perfect football dessert idea.

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We’ll need a whole mess of ingredients, but the first thing I did was buy a football shaped cake pan.

You can easily do this without a football cake pan by using a round cake pan and stripping out a strip of cake, about 2 or 3 inches, from the middle of the circle and sliding the cake together to create a football shape.

I just have a thing for novelty pans, I think they’re cool!

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Anyways, let’s get to the recipe! Enjoy!

This recipe is more akin to a pound cake, so it will take a bit longer to bake than a box cake mix, and you should watch it closely.It is a little tricky baking a pound-like cake in a regular pan, but it comes out so nice, rich and chocolaty!

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If you notice the edges bakingtoo much faster than the center, turn down the temperature and increase the cook time.

For mine, I adjusted the temperature to325º after 30 minutes and baked the cake for an extra 10 minutes. Again, watch it closely and check it with a toothpick.

A lot of different factors will come into play when baking a pound cake in a regular cake pan and each kitchen will be different.

For the football pan I made two batches of batter to fill the pan two-thirds of the way full.

As you can see, I had left over batter (too much to lick!) — so I made some cupcakes, too. I’m calling it a happy accident! I had enough to make 6 cupcakes — yum!

Iassembled them the same way I did with the cake, by puttingSNICKERS® Minis in the center – and one on top for decorations of course! I baked these along side the cake for 20 minutes and they came out perfect.

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Scroll down to seemy easy peasy peanut butter frosting recipe &my frosting tip for making your football come out with a nice smooth texture!

To decorate mycake with SNICKERS® Minis, I cut some in half to create the football laces, and then surrounded the cake with whole onesas well.

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Easy Peanut Butter Frosting

This peanut butter frosting is so easy, but so delicious! I take mere minutes to whip it up, so wait until your cake is cooled before starting the frosting. If you like peanut butter, you’re going to love this peanut butter frosting!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter – room temperature
  • one cup peanut butter
  • 4 cups confectioners sugar
  • ¼ milk
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract

Equipment

Directions

  • In your mixer bowl, beat butter on medium speed until it’s turned fluffy
  • Add peanut butter and ¾ cups confectioners sugar, milk and vanilla extract – continue mixing
  • Gradually add in the remaining confectioners sugar, add about 1/2 cup at a time and beat until smooth before adding more. Add the remaining 3¼ cups, beating until smooth.

This cake is perfect to serve at your football game day party, football themed birthday party, or any timeyou’re ready to get your football on!

This is also perfect for National Chocolate Cake Day since it falls just around the time of the football playoff and championship games. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than with aSNICKERS® cake!

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Football Cake

A fun football cake for National chocolate cake day!

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

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Total Time 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins

Equipment

Ingredients

  • SNICKERS® Minis – I got a Party Size bag and still had plenty left over!
  • 2 eggs
  • 11/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup butter room temperature
  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup sour cream can use low-fat
  • 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350º.

  • With your kitchen stand mixer, mix together butter and vanilla, adding sugar until it had a fluffy appearance, don’t over beat.

  • Beat in one egg at a time, one after the other.

  • Add sour cream, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking power and salt, mix on low until everything is well incorporated.

  • Add flour and continue mixing on low until mixed in.

  • Grease pan with butter or cooking spray.

  • Spread 1/2 batter into pans evenly.

  • Add SNICKERS® Minis – just plunk them in, press them down a tiny bit if needed.

  • Add remaining batter over the SNICKERS® Minis.

  • Bake in oven for 55-60 minutes for a one pan recipe. Check cake using a toothpick inserted into the cake near the center. When toothpick comes out nearly clean, cake is done. See note above for cook time and temperature adjustment.

  • Let cool before frosting.

Author: Scrappy Geek

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  1. Heather says:

    January 23, 20166:09 am

    Awesome! Love the paper towel for texture! What a fun idea.

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Decorate in Order
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Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Spray Small Batter Bowl with nonstick cooking spray.
  2. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Pour into batter bowl.
  3. Bake 35-45 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. ...
  4. Frost and decorate as desired to create a baseball cap or pumpkin.

How do you ice football cake? ›

Roll the black icing to 3mm think and cut around the pentagon shape with a sharp knife. Dampen the top of the cake with water and stick your first pentagon on. Lay the hexagon underneath and gently score lines around the shape into the icing, taking care not to actually cut into the icing. Repeat around the whole cake.

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