Thanks for stopping by to check out our game day desserts! Here’s an epic list of game day dessert recipes with sweets perfect for football food season—TV parties, tailgating, and cookouts or just hanging out on the couch together!
1. Apple Pie Dip with Cinnamon Sugar Chips
It’s warm, gooey, cinnamon-spiced magic—basically the inside of an apple pie, just made for dipping. And those crispy cinnamon sugar tortilla chips make the best sweet snack sidekick.
2. Lemon Cookie Recipe With Cake Mix
A handful of ingredients, plus fresh lemon zest and juice make this a bright, soft cookie that is irresistible and comes together in a snap. (Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy, as they say!)
Try another lemon cookie variation that calls for Cool Whip in the mix!
3. Easy Cherry Pie Bars
We use a can of cherry pie filling for these, but you can substitute any fruit filling. These are so good and tasty like a combination of pie and cobbler.
4. Cookies & Cream Football Cheese Ball
When it’s a football game day theme dessert you are after, look no further than this “cheese ball,” which is actually Oreo cookies, cream cheese, butter, chocolate syrup and powdered sugar! Shape it into a football and add icing. Add dipper like apple slices, graham crackers and more OREOs on the side.
5. Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Chewy, chocolatey goodness, homemade and lookin’ tasty! I think these are some righteously good cookies for game day or any time!
6. Easy Snickers Chocolate Pretzels
Sweet and salty party desserts are great and the kids can get in on this prep! Square pretzels, bite-size Snickers and white chocolate chips are all it takes!
7. Dinosaur Cookie Chocolate Bark
For the kids (or the boy-mom in you), grab a bag of Mother’s Mighty Dynamite Dinosaurs Frosted Cookies, some dino sprinkles and a few other fun mix-ins, and you have a fun bark that is fun to snack on or send home bagged up as football party favors!
8. Frosted Football Brownies
This game day theme dessert takes the cake, well, really the brownie! Just bake your favorite brownie mix. Cut the brownies into squares and then cut two corners off to make a hexagon.
9. Fantasy Fudge
A simple chocolate fudge recipe that is so customizable with your favorite toppings or mix-ins. Marshmallows, chocolate chips and evaporated milk will get you started, just have a kitchen thermometer on hand to get you going.
10. No Bake Avalanche Cookies
These avalanche cookies are made with melty white chocolate, peanut butter, crispy rice cereal, marshmallows, and mini chocolate chips.
11. Easy Chocolate Covered Ritz Crackers
It is hard to believe some easy game day dessert ideas are as easy as they sound, but these are! They look amazing but are super simple to make. Simply spread the sugar and peanut butter between two Ritz crackers and cover in the melted chocolate of your choice! FANCY Sprinkles are optional, but so fun!
12. Peanut Butter Football Dip
Another football game day theme dessert coming at you. This dip is peanut butter, cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar with chocolate chips! Fun twist on a dip, just add animal crackers and pretzels!
13. Mini Fruit Pizzas
Beautiful and tasty game day dessert ideas are these mini fruit pizzas. The base is a chewy sugar cookie with a cream cheese topping. Then fresh fruit is placed on top. You could decorate them or you could let your friends and family build their own with a fruit bar so everyone gets their favorites.
14. Lemon Squares
Lemon is such a welcome flavor when it comes to party desserts. This is a light, refreshing and sweet lemon square with just the right amount of tart and powdered sugar on top. It has two luscious layers with a buttery crust and gooey filling!
15. Cheesecake Sugar Cookie Football Cups
Gotta love easy game day dessert ideas that look cute too for the theme too! These sugar cookie cups are unassuming but seriously delicious. Baked cookie dough on bottom, cheesecake filling and icing on top!
16. Easy Football Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Blondies
Blondies as a game day theme dessert? Yes, please! This recipe is so easy starting with a yellow cake mix and adding in egg, oil, milk, peanut butter chips, and chocolate chips. After baking and cooling they can be cut with a football cookie cutter and striped with a tube of white icing.
17. Cinnamon Roll Poke Cake
Guests can cut themselves a big helping of this decadent vanilla cake downright deluged with sweetened condensed milk, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Topped with our whipped cream cheese frosting, this dessert recipe is a keeper for home or away.
18. Boston Cream Pie Cookie Cups
These Boston Cream Pie Cookie Cups are soft, creamy, and topped with ganache. An easy cake mix dessert that look great on the dessert table and easy to grab on the way to the TV!
19. Banana Pudding Cups
Banana pudding has a tried-and-true following in the south, with its easy vanilla wafer “crust”, fresh banana slices, and whipped cream. Portioned out into individual cups, this recipe makes cleanup easier without sacrificing the scrumptiousness of authentic banana pudding.
20. Easy Football Cake
For a game day theme dessert that is both simple and eye-catching, this recipe is for you.
21. Strawberry Blueberry Pretzel “Salad”
Salad is an outrageous lie! But let’s go with it when you tell people you are having the most delicious salad at your football party. This is a midwest special, layered berries with fluff and crushed pretzels, it’s hard to beat.
22. Apple Dapple Cake
An easy snacking cake with a luscious caramel-like frosting that enhances all that great fall flavor of apples and cinnamon.
The bottom line
Game day football food leans savory, but something sweet always rounds things out. These desserts are simple to make, easy to share, and just right for passing around between plays. These quick, no-bake dips, cookies and bars are good ideas that balance out the salty snacks and keep everyone satisfied.
