Football cookies are perfect for football season and the Super Bowl, of course. But they’re also great for football themed birthday parties all year long!
If you’re looking for more football party goodies, check out our Best Football Party Food and the 7 Layer Dip. Oh my gosh!
Football Cookies
Do you have football fans in your house? If you do, you know that it’s not just a game. It’s an experience. The fans in my house are so involved in the game, I sometimes think they believe they are coaching the team from our house.
The yelling, the walking around the room, the jumping up and down. Oh my gosh. You can’t believe it.
Some of the tools you’ll need for Football Cookies:
- Several bowls
- Piping bags
- Squeeze bottles
- Edible markers
These football cookies are a big hit with my fans.
They look so good, you guys. What makes them a favorite with me though is that delicious royal icing. I could sit down with a spoon and eat nothing but royal icing.
Follow this step by step photo for decorating these treats. It’s much simpler than it looks!
Football Cookies
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 1 1/2 C powder sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cream of tarter
- 3 C flour
Royal Icing ingredients:
- 3 egg whites
- 2 C powder sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tarter
- 1 tsp vanilla
- two piping bags fitted with the number 2 tip
- Brown gel food coloring
- Brown cake spray
Instructions
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, almond extract and egg and mix until combined
- In a large bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and cream of tarter. Mix until combined
- Gradually mix in the flour mixture into the wet ingredients until combined
- Lightly flour a cutting board and begin to knead the dough until the dough is smooth
- Roll the dough out to 1/4 inch thick
- Using the cookie cutter, cut out the shapes and place onto the cookie sheet about 1 inch apart
- Bake in the oven for 8 minutes
- Pull out of the oven and cool completely
Icing Directions:
- Using the standing mixer, combine the powder sugar, egg whites, cream of tarter and vanilla and mix on medium speed
- If the royal icing is still a yellow soup, add in 1/2 C powder sugar
- Continue to mix until you get stiff peaks
- Divide the icing between the two bowls
- Add several drops of the brown gel coloring into one bowl and mix until combined
- Leave the second bowl white
- Scoop a little bit of the brown icing into one piping bag and set aside
- Scoop a little bit of the white icing into the second piping bag and set aside
- Mix in 2 tsp of water into the white and brown icing and mix until combined
- Pour the brown and white icing into 1 each of the squeeze bottles
Decorating Directions:
- Using the edible marker, draw out where your white lines on the football will go
- Using the white icing bag, pipe the outline for the white lines
- Using the white icing in the squeeze bottle, fill in the white outlines
- Using the brown icing, pipe an outline around edge of the football and white lines
- Fill in with the thinned brown icing
- Allow to completely dry for 4 hours before doing the final detail
- Once dried, pipe a brown line across the middle and pipe small dots into the middle lower section of the football
- Using the white icing, pipe the white lines on the top of the football
- Allow to dry for 30 minutes
- Using the brown cake spray, spray around the edges of the cookie to give it an old and dirty look
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I’m a hobbyist cookier, these are the best football cookies I’ve ever seen. I spend a lot of time researching designs and whatnot. Great job and thank you for sharing!!