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    Home » Recipes » Father's Day

    Candy Filled Football Pinata Brownies

    Published: Aug 31, '22 · Modified: Aug 31, '22 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Fill these 3-layer Football Piñata Brownies with your favorite candy. These chocolate cookies are easy to make using a brownie mix and they are a fun game day dessert.

    Making candy filled piñata cookies is so fun and today I've added a twist. I used brownie batter instead of cookie dough to make Football Piñata Brownies filled with mini Reese's Pieces.

    If you serve fun food when you host friends to watch a football game, these Football Pinata Brownies will be a great addition to your menu.

    Each football is comprised of three thin football-shaped brownies that are decorated and held together using frosting.

    When hungry football fans break open or bite into one of these football brownies, they'll be surprised to find candy hiding inside.

    Although these footballs look elaborate, they are super simple to make.

    You start by mixing up a Betty Crocker Supreme Brownie Mix with the enclosed Hershey's Syrup packet, melted butter, egg, and water.

    brownie ingredients including Hershey's fudge, water, egg, and butter

    spread brownie mix into thin layer, bake, cut using football cookie cutter, fill with candy, decorate with frotsing

    Football Pinata Cookies Recipe

    football brownies filled with candy
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    Football Pinata Cookies
    Prep Time
    45 mins
    Cook Time
    26 mins
     

    Football-shaped brownie cookies stacked together using frosting are filled with candy, then are decorated with frosting football laces.

    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: cookies, football, football cookies, pinata cookies
    Servings: 5 candy-filled cookies
    Author: Beth
    Ingredients
    • 1 box (18 oz.) Betty Crocker™ Ultimate Fudge Supreme™ brownie mix with Hershey's® Fudge
    • ¼ cup butter melted
    • 1 egg
    • ⅓ cup water
    • 1 can Betty Crocker™ decorating cupcake icing
    • ⅓ cup mini candies
    Instructions
    1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
    2. Line an 18x13x1-inch baking pan with nonstick aluminum foil or parchment paper sprayed with baking spray.

    3. Mix together the Betty Crocker™ Supreme Ultimate Fudge Brownie Mix, Hershey's Syrup packet, melted butter, egg and water.
    4. Spread batter in a thin even layer in the baking pan and bake for 24-28 minutes, until the brownie looks set around the edges.
    5. Remove pan from the oven and allow brownies to cool for 15 minutes on the pan.
    6. Flip the pan over, placing brownies on a cutting board. Peel off the aluminum foil or parchment paper.
    7. Use a 4-inch football-shaped cookie cutter to cut out 15 brownies, then use a 2 ¼ to 2 ½-inch oval cookie cutter to cut holes out of 5 of the brownies.
    8. Pipe a thin band of icing over the backside of one of the brownies with the holes. Set it on a solid brownie.

    9. Fill the hole with candies.

    10. Pipe a thin band of icing around the top edge of the brownie with the hole. Set a whole brownie on top. Repeat.

    11. Use the cake icing to decorate the football brownies with laces down the center and stripes on either end.
    Recipe Notes

    Store your football-shaped cookies in an airtight container for up to 5 days. 

    If you want more tailgating or homegating party ideas for the college football season,
    be sure to check out my Football Party Food ideas.

    Your party guests will cheer when you serve them some of these amazing Super Bowl Recipes. Each of these fun party food ideas will score big during any football themed event.

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. The Partiologist

      January 22, 2015 at 12:53 pm

      I'd run for a pass to grab one of these footballs, I love brownies and the way you've layered them filled with candy is super cute!

      Reply
      • beth

        January 25, 2015 at 6:44 pm

        LOL! I throw like a girl, and wouldn't be able to get one of these across my kitchen, let along across a football field!

        Reply
    2. Tamara Gerber

      January 22, 2015 at 8:17 am

      Very cute!

      Reply
      • beth

        January 25, 2015 at 6:44 pm

        Thanks, Tamara:)

        Reply
    3. beth

      January 21, 2015 at 8:32 pm

      I wish I could have shared them with him! They are yummy.

      Reply
    4. Sugartown Sweets

      January 21, 2015 at 6:47 pm

      Haha..okay, I read the post and know these are brownies, not cookies as I called them in my previous comment. These are so cool!

      Reply
      • beth

        January 21, 2015 at 8:33 pm

        I've called them cookies too! They really are brownie cookies, so either way, it's all good. Thanks:)

        Reply
    5. Sugartown Sweets

      January 21, 2015 at 6:44 pm

      I love the pinata cookies!!

      Reply
    6. Brenda @ SweetSimpleStuff

      January 20, 2015 at 5:40 am

      I will never tire of pinatas ... love the brownie twist!

      Reply
      • beth

        January 21, 2015 at 8:31 pm

        Me either, I'm glad you like the new twist. It was fun to make them and eat them.

        Reply

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