DIY Super Bowl Football Party Ideas & Recipes

It’s that time of year again folks, are you ready? We have some outstanding DIY Super Bowl Football Party Ideas & Recipes for you to make your celebration the best on the block! Whether you just need a few tips or a full DIY tutorial, we’ve got you covered. 

DECORATIONS

First off we want to refer you to our original post here about the Football Party we put together back in August. This party is chock full of DIY Super Bowl Football Party Ideas & Recipes, a full plan that includes our Football Printable Party Decorations that are available in our shop. The Football Printables include everything you need to set up your party like ours, custom text, and custom team colors!

FOOD

Next up, Super Bowl Party Recipes! Be sure to include our Cupcake For Men on your party table, a moist delicious treat that will please everyone. Ingredients include: BEER, CHEESE & BACON. What more could you want in a cupcake really? To see the rest of the recipes we used on our table and much much more, visit our Football Board on Pinterest here. If you feel bit nervous about a cupcake that includes beer and cheddar cheese (I was at first) let me put your mind at ease. These are still sweet just like any other cake, and the beer in the buttercream is the perfect touch. Use your favorite and get creative with specialty cheeses too, you could make these cupcakes something simple or super gourmet.

DIY Super Bowl Football Party Ideas & Recipes pictured include: Kickin’ Hot Buffalo Chicken Cups and Off-Sides Ham & Swiss Sliders. These are both mouth-wateringly delicious recipes, and we were very pleased with the results! A big thank you to Gimme Some Oven and The Girl Who Ate Everything for providing the perfect recipes.

PROPS for your DIY Super Bowl Football Party

We created a few props for this party that really pulled everything together and made the look of a football field complete. Props include the step-by-step DIY projects linked below:

Football Field Table Cover

Football Party Bleachers Display

If you aren’t the DIY type, you can also purchase these props from our shop here instead.

We hope this helps you kick off your party in style!


 

Retro 50's Style Christmas Party

This Retro 50’s Style Christmas Party harkens back to the days when housewives across America brought our their best cut-glass serving pieces, fine china and silver, baked all day, and invited friends and neighbors over to celebrate the season. It was a social time, a time to show off your inner hostess, eat delicious food, drink lots of eggnog and enjoy great company!

For me, this party is a reminder of my grandparents. My grandmother in particular, the perfect hostess. With their Americana patterned glass, polished silver, food galore, my grandfather’s special recipe for egg-nog and a huge bowl full of sherbet punch. Little crystal dishes scattered about the house filled with delectable sweet items. This was something we saw each and every holiday, Christmas being the most special of occasions. 

This Retro 50’s Style Christmas Party features those very same elements. We included old-fashioned gingerbread cake, classic vanilla cupcakes, various old-fashioned hard candies, egg-nog and the holiday staple fruitcake. The simplicity of this spread is that you could easily purchase all of the items on the table for a last-minute gathering. Or if you are the planning and baking type, you have a variety of cakes to satisfy your talent. 

Our Retro 50’s Style Christmas Party printables pictured are FREE to download and use for your family gathering.

THE SET INCLUDES:

  • Cupcake Wraps
  • 2” Party Circles
  • 5x7” Invitations (Fill-in yousrself)
  • 4” Ornament Tags
  • 2.5” Gift Tags
  • Labels / Tent Cards
  • 4- DIY Cake Stand Graphics - Sized at 8”x6”
  • Bottle Wraps / Napkin Rings
  • Flags
  • Banner 

Download the PDF file HERE and print whichever pages you need to create the perfect Retro 50’s Style Christmas Party for your family gathering this year!

Thank you for reading us this year!

Merry Christmas!

Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cake

This recipe for old-fashioned gingerbread cake is dark, perfectly spiced and very moist. We wanted to create a cake that was authentic in taste, right down to the fresh ginger! We also chose to bake our cake in a vintage bundt pan (found on Etsy here) made by Kaiser and orginating from Germany. The combination of the old-fashioned gingerbread cake recipe and the vintage bundt pan was not a disappointment. The result was a truly classic dessert masterpiece!

To add a bit of color to the old-fashioned gingerbread cake we made a simple glaze of water, lemon juice and powdered sugar, tinted it yellow, and ran in over the grooves of the cake. Lemon sauce or lemon glaze is a complementary flavor to gingerbread, but not one often seen in most recipes these days.

If lemon is not your style, this cake is also delicious with heavy cream, whipped cream or just by itself!

Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger (grated)
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick of unsalted butter
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1 1/2 cups molasses (Grandma’s Molasses brand works well.)

Directions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F.
  2. Combine the flour, baking soda, and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Using a whisk, add in the spices and salt.
  3. Melt the butter in the boiling water and whisk it into the flour mixture. 
  4. Add the eggs and molasses and whisk until blended.
  5. Turn into a preapred bundt pan. Bake for 1 hour - 1 hour 15 minutes, until well done and a toothpick plunged in the center comes out clean.

Lemon Glaze (optional)

Ingredients

  • 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
  • 3  tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • Water
  • Yellow food gel (optional)

Directions

  1. In a medium sized bowl, add your confectioner’s sugar and then stir in lemon juice. Add more sugar or lemon juice/water, if necessary so that the glaze is thick but still pourable. Tint with yellow food gel to desired shade. 

  2. Pour the glaze into the molded grooves of the bundt cake very slowly, allowing the glaze to run down the sides, while staying within the grooves, for the effect pictured.

    To see the rest of the images from our Retro 50’s Style Christmas party and to download the FREE printable party decorations click here!

    Merry Christmas, Enjoy your Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cake!