Football Party Recipes + Football Watch Party Ideas + FREE Printables

Coca-Cola and RITZ® SPONSORED THIS FOOTBALL Party Recipes POST. I WAS COMPENSATED FOR THIS POST. ALL IDEAS AND OPINIONS ARE 100% MY OWN AND I ONLY WORK WITH BRANDS I LOVE.

The BIG GAME is almost here!! Maybe you LOVE Football, or you may just love entertaining and your husband loves Football! Either way this post is for you. I am super excited to share some DELICIOUS Football Party Recipes using RITZ® Crackers which pair perfectly with Coca-Cola Coke Zero (my favorite soda wink wink)! I am also showing you fun Football Party Decorating Ideas including FREE Printables! You can easily host the ultimate Game Day Party by setting up on your kitchen counter, dining room table, or on a buffet (console) table. With the following Party Decorating Tips, Football Party Recipes, Kids Activities, and FREE Printables you will be able to host a simple and easy Game Day Football Watch Party. Instead of hosting you may be attending a Football Party at a friends house. In that case you could show up with a few of the RITZ® Cracker Recipes and a 6 pack of Coca-Cola or Coke Zero and knock their socks off!

Amazing Photography by Heather Renee Photography

The DIY Paper Football Game is an easy game to make. Your guest young and old will have a blast scoring points by “kicking” paper footballs through the goal post. My husband created the DIY Football Field and Field Goal Post, and we have been able to use it again and again at different parties.

The Football Party Recipes my husband created are seriously AMAZING and EASY! My husband is the cook in the family, and was excited to create Football Party Recipes using RITZ® Crackers as the staple ingredient. All of the delicious Sliders and Flavored crackers pair great with Coke Zero.

I like to work with what I have when hosting small gatherings at my house. Now that being said, I create parties and party styling for a living, so I probably have more serving ware than the average person. If you don’t have a lot of serving ware then get creative! An easy thing to use is different size plates and bowls. You could go to your local Walmart to purchase solid white or black plates for a great price. When setting up for hosting a large or small party; you always want to make sure your serving ware will hold enough food for all of your guest to make it through one round. You can then refill your serving ware with more of your Football Party Recipes as the party goes on.

All the FREE Printables you need to host a Game Day Party are at the bottom of this post. The Go Team Banner can be used as it is or you can add tissue tassels as I did here. I like to assemble my banners by punching a hole (using standard office supply hole punch) in each corner. Then I string bakers twine through the holes, and use clear wrapping tape to hang.

The large Printable Cut Outs are perfect for your guest to use as they root on their favorite team! GO TEAM GO!! If your house is like my families, then during games you may hear a lot more screaming than Go Team Go (wink wink)!

I am in LOVE with the Mini Foam Finger Cut Outs. They add the perfect Game Day touch to straws. Which can be tied to your Coca-Cola or Coke Zero bottles using bakers twine. You can use clear tape to attach the foam fingers to the straws. They are also perfect for adding to tooth picks, and inserting in your Football Party Recipes food items. The Mini Triangle Flags are easy to assemble - use double sided tape to adhere them to the tooth picks by folding the flag in half.

YUMMY RIGHT?!?! Seriously though all of these recipes are simply amazing! You have to try them all, and trust me your mouth will thank you! The delicious and easy STEP BY STEP Football Party Recipes for all of the above RITZ® Cracker Sliders and Flavored crackers are toward the bottom of the post.

Your guest will want to know ALL of the Football Party Recipes you used. You can point them my way (wink wink)! If you don’t plan on hosting a Football Watch Party you can also create one, or all, of these delicious mini sliders and flavored cracker recipes to take with you as you attend a friend or families party!

Keep the kids entertained with the FREE Pritnable Activity Placemat or let them create Play Books during the Football Party!

FLAVORED CRACKER FOOTBALL PARTY RECIPES

FIRECRACKERS

Ingredients

• 2 sleeves of RITZ® Crackers
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 2 Table spoons packet of ranch dressing mix
• Red pepper flakers
• 1 gallon bag

 

NACHO CHEESE CRACKERS

• 2 sleeves of RITZ® Crackers
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 2 Tablespoons packet cheesy taco seasoning
• 1 gallon bag

Directions For Firecracker & Nacho Cheese

o Mix oil and seasoning in bag
o Pour in crackers and shake until all crackers are coated
o Shake again every 20 minutes for two hours
o Remove from bag and store until ready to serve

CINNAMON CRACKERS

Ingredients

• 2 sleeves of RITZ® Crackers
• 4 Tablespoons butter
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 Tablespoon cinnamon
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Directions

o Preheat oven to 250 degrees
o Melt butter and pour over crackers in a bowl
o Mix cinnamon and sugar in a separate bowl and drizzle over crackers while mixing in seasoning
o When all are well coated layout on a baking sheet and place in oven for 25 minutes
o Remove and allow them to cool, then store until ready to serve

MINI SLIDER FOOTBALL PARTY RECIPES

BUFFALO CHICKEN SLIDERS

Ingredients

• 2 Sleeves of RITZ® Crackers
• 1 pound chicken tenders
• ¾ cup red hot sauce
• 1 Tablespoon ranch dressing seasoning
• 1 Tablespoon of Butter
• Blue Cheese crumbles

Directions

o Place chicken in crockpot on low
o Whisk together hot sauce and ranch seasoning, then pour over chicken
o Cook chicken for 2:30 hours or until chicken pulls apart
o Shred chicken and stir in butter
o Pile chicken on crackers and sprinkle on blue cheese, then top with a second cracker

PHILLY CHEESE STEAK SLIDERS

Ingredients

• 2 Sleeves RITZ® Crackers
• 1 Pound Beef Stir Fry Steak
• 1 Green Bell Pepper
• 1 Onion
• Provolone Cheese
• Soy Sauce
• Worcestershire Sauce

Additional Options
• Jalapenos
• Mushrooms
• Substitute Beef with Chicken

Directions

o Cut steak strips into 1” pieces and place in preheated skillet on medium heat
o While meat is cooking cut half the bell pepper and three onion slices into pieces
o Stir meat around until all meat is lightly browned
o Place onion and peppers in heated pan on medium-low heat and cook till tender.
o While veggies are cooking cut cheese into 1” square slices
o Once tender, add meat back to pan with veggies, then drizzle ½ Tablespoon of soy sauce and ½ Tablespoon Worchester sauce. Stir together and simmer for 1 minute.
o Pile meat and veggies on crackers and place cheese on top (you may need to microwave for 15 seconds or less to melt the cheese) then top with a second cracker

HAMBURGER SLIDERS

Ingredients

• 2 Sleeves RITZ® Crackers
• 1 Pound Hamburger meat
• Yellow American Cheese (Any cheese could be used based on preference)
• Lettuce
• Salt and Pepper

Additional Options

• Pickle Slice
• Onion
• Bacon
• Double stack meat

Directions

o Form small meat patties approximately 2” in diameter and ¼” thick
o Salt and pepper patties and place in preheated skillet on Medium heat
o Flip after 2 minutes or until edges start to brown, finish grilling second side for 2 minutes or until brown
o While meat is cooking cut cheese into 1” square slices and cut lettuce into 1” square pieces
o Remove cooked patties from skillet and place on crackers, add cheese, lettuce, and any additional toppings

FREE PRINTABLE FILES FOR PRINTING AND ASSEMBLY – Football Watch Party

Important PLEASE READ – DOWNLOAD AND READ INSTRUCTIONS PAGE FIRST. You MUST HAVE the newest version of adobe reader to edit the editable files. Standard Files without a larger size next to them are to be printed on 8.5×11 white cardstock. If the files have a larger size next to them; you will need to save to a flash drive and print at your local print shop or on a large scale printer.

PERSONAL USE ONLY!! You can NOT resell these items, claim them as your own, share without proper credit, or use for profit in any way. You must credit Lillian Hope Designs with a clickable link back to this post when sharing.

Instructions For Printing and Editing Text PLEASE READ FIRST
Party Logos
Go Team Banner -1
Go Team Banner -2
Go Team Banner -3
Go Team Banner -4
Mini Foam Fingers
Cut Outs – Foam Finger
Cut Outs – Flags
Mini Triangle Flags
Placemat 10×14
Play Book

VENDORS

Styling + FREE Printables – Lillian Hope Designs
Photography – Heather Renee Photography

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