27 Easy Game Day Appetizers

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Is it even game day without an assortment of delicious Super Bowl party food? I think not. The food is just as important as the football game. We’ve collected some of the best and most popular Super Bowl recipes from creamy dips, piping hot chicken wings, handheld appetizers, pizza, healthier snacks, and more. So no matter which team you are rooting for, you will score big when it comes to the food.

What Snacks Do You Eat At A Football Game?

Wings, quesadillas, pizza, brownies, cookies, fried chicken, subs, tacos… You name it, we got it. Football season is snack season, and finger food is the name of the game (unless it’s chili, duh).

Best Homemade Air Fryer Pizza Rolls From Scratch

Best Homemade Air Fryer Pizza Rolls From Scratch
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These Air Fryer Pizza Rolls have delicious pepperoni and mozzarella cheese packed in pizza pockets – an instant crowd-pleaser great for appetizers or snacks. You can easily make these bite-sized mini pizzas at home from scratch in under 10 minutes. We’ve also included instructions on how to air fry frozen pizza puffs straight from the freezer.

TGI Friday’s Potato Skins

TGI Friday's Potato Skins

If you love the potato skins served at TGI Fridays, you’ll want to try this copycat recipe. It’s the perfect dish to serve to a crowd when you’re hosting game day or movie night.

Best Oven Baked Cheesy Dorito Nachos

Best Oven Baked Cheesy Dorito Nachos

Want to know a neat trick for making the best nachos at home? Use Doritos! Instead of plain tortilla chips, these Dorito Nachos are made with flavorful Doritos chips. Add all your favorite toppings and pop it in the oven for the ultimate snack!

Easy Seafood Dip Recipe

Easy Seafood Dip Recipe

This creamy seafood dip combines delicious seafood, cheese, and spices and is sure to impress. Get creative with different seafood and spices and you can bake more than one variety!

Simple Homemade Guacamole Dip (Alton Brown Recipe)

Simple Homemade Guacamole Dip (Alton Brown Recipe)

If you’ve been searching for guacamole that rivals anything you’ve had at a restaurant, this is the one. This Simple Homemade Guacamole Dip adapted from Alton Brown’s recipe is perfect to enjoy with your favorite Mexican dishes, and is also delicious served on toast!

Spinach-Stuffed Mushrooms

Spinach-Stuffed Mushrooms

These fabulous Spinach-Stuffed Mushrooms are the perfect appetizer for a party. They’re made with two kinds of cheese and fresh baby spinach and are perfectly seasoned.

Dry Rub Chicken Wings

Dry Rub Chicken Wings

Wingstop calls the Louisiana Rub a “crispy dry rub with some Deep South Cajun love”. You’ll call it your go-to seasoning for wing night! This medium-heat spice mix is super easy to prepare and will load up your wings with a ton of flavor. Pair it with a creamy Wingstop Ranch dipping sauce and it’s a party hit!

Air Fryer Potato Chips

Air Fryer Potato Chips

Crispy and healthy homemade potato chips are made with only 3 ingredients in an air fryer. It’s an easy and guilt-free recipe as you’ll only need a small amount of cooking spray. Season them up the way you like. This crunchy snack tastes so good and you’ll never buy store-bought potato chips again!

Easy Popcorn Chicken

Easy Popcorn Chicken

These Dorito Chicken Bites are mouthwateringly tender with a crispy coating! They’re baked in the oven for a healthier recipe that’s ready in 20 minutes. Serve with dipping sauce for an easy appetizer!

Bread Bowl Football Dip

Bread Bowl Football Dip

This Super Bread Bowl Football Dip always gets devoured on Game Day! It’s an oval, football-shaped bread loaf full of melty cheese that’s perfect for dipping crusty bread plus crudités like carrot sticks. Serve it hot out of the oven for the best cheese pulls!

Game Day Chicken Wings

Game Day Chicken Wings

These easy and delicious chicken wings are flavorful and baked to perfection in the oven. You only need 3 ingredients to make them for an easy game day appetizer everyone will love!

Buffalo Ranch Fries

Buffalo Ranch Fries

These delicious fries are a copycat of the ever-popular Wingstop Buffalo Ranch Fries! Crispy homemade french fries are loaded with Buffalo chicken wing flavors and topped with cheddar cheese and crumbled gorgonzola. These loaded fries are easy to make at home!

Hawaiian Hurricane Popcorn

Hawaiian Hurricane Popcorn

This easy treat is crunchy and buttery, with just a bit of sweetness. Made with popcorn kernels, Japanese rice crackers, and furikake seasoning, this stove-top recipe is so much better than microwave popcorn and it takes less than 10 minutes to make!

Pepperoni Pizza Slider

Pepperoni Pizza Slider

These pizza inspired sliders have pepperoni, marinara sauce and cheese sandwiched in dinner rolls and baked to melty perfection. They’re perfect for a party including game day and birthdays!

Pepperoni Pizza Pretzels

Pepperoni Pizza Pretzels

This is a soft and delicious snack with delicious bacon, pepperoni and sausage flavors! You can easily make these pizza pretzels in the oven with a few simple ingredients.

Popeyes French Fries

Popeyes French Fries

These homemade French fries are crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside, with the perfect kick. They taste the same if not better than the fast-food French fry. What distinguishes these Popeyes Fries is an irresistible mix of seasonings for an authentic Cajun treat.

Bacon Wrapped Brussels Sprouts

Bacon Wrapped Brussels Sprouts

Thes game day snacks are tender on the inside and crispy on the outside! It’s easy to make these Brussel sprouts with bacon using 3 simple ingredients. Serve this Brussel sprout appetizer with maple syrup or balsamic reduction for dipping.

Crescent Roll Hot Dogs

Crescent Roll Hot Dogs

These hot dogs with a twist for a fun appetizer everyone will love, kids included! Served with your favorite dipping sauce, these crescent dogs are fabulous for parties, game days and birthdays. You only need 3 ingredients: hot dogs, crescent rolls, and egg wash.

5 Minute Kettle Corn

5 Minute Kettle Corn

This is an addictive sweet-and-salty snack that’s light and airy! It’s the perfect finger food for snacking as well as movie night, game day and any other party. This homemade kettle corn recipe is so easy that you’ll want to make it again and again!

Crockpot Buffalo Chicken Wings

Crock pot buffalo wings make the best snack, and you only need 4 ingredients! Claim the title of best wings at any party with this easy recipe.

Jalapeno Poppers

Jalapeno Poppers

Jalapeno Poppers are my obsession! Fresh Jalapenos are sliced in half and filled with a rich creamy cheese filling and topped with a crisp Panko topping. These poppers are baked until golden and bubbly for the perfect game day snack!

Seven-Layer Taco Dip

Seven-Layer Taco Dip

Serve this classic Seven Layer Taco Dip at your next fiesta. This no bake party dip has all the Mexican flavor including guacamole!

Spinach Artichoke Dip

Spinach Artichoke Dip

Spinach Artichoke Dip! It’s deliciously rich, perfectly creamy and cheesy, brimming with spinach and artichokes and it’s always a crowd favorite. This version is oven baked and incredibly easy to make.

Mozzarella Sticks

Keto Mozzarella Sticks

There are few things more delicious than Homemade Mozzarella Sticks, freshly made in your kitchen. They are shockingly easy to make, and a wonderfully ooey gooey snack! The secret is to freeze the cheese sticks before frying, which ensures that the cheese doesn’t leak out before the shell gets golden and crispy.

Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo chicken dip is a sinfully creamy and mouth watering appetizer infused with hot wing flavours! perfect comfort food for any special occasion.

Cheese and Garlic Crack Bread

Cheese and Garlic Crack Bread

This Cheese and Garlic Crack Bread is EPIC! “Crack bread” is an appropriate name for this because it’s garlic bread – on crack. It’s basically a cheesy garlic bread, but so much more fun and delicious! Cheese, garlic and bread  – in a pull apart bread form. You can’t go wrong. Guaranteed to be the most popular thing at any gathering you take it to!

Pizza Dip

Pizza Dip

This Pizza Dip Recipe is so easy to make and always a huge hit. In under 20 minutes, you can have the ultimate appetizer full of cheesy goodness that everyone will love!

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If you love the potato skins served at TGI Fridays, you’ll want to try this copycat recipe. It’s the perfect dish to serve to a crowd when you’re hosting game day or movie night.

Best Game Day Appetizer Recipe

By: Izzy
If you love the potato skins served at TGI Fridays, you’ll want to try this copycat recipe. It’s the perfect dish to serve to a crowd when you’re hosting game day or movie night.
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 4 servings

Ingredients 

  • 4 small russet potatoes
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 1/2 cup cooked bacon, crumbled
  • salt and pepper, to taste

To Serve:

  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 chopped green onion

Instructions 

  • Preheat the oven to 425°F.
  • Scrub the potatoes thoroughly and allow them to dry.
  • Pierce each potato 4-5 times with a fork.
  • Rub the potatoes with olive oil and season lightly with salt and pepper to taste.
  • Place the potatoes on a baking sheet lined with foil or parchment paper and bake for 1 hour until tender.
  • Allow the potatoes to cool.
  • When the potatoes have cooled, set the oven to 375°F.
  • Cut each potato in half lengthwise.
  • Using a spoon, gently scoop out most of the white from each potato leaving about ¼ inch attached to the skin. Set the scooped out potato aside and use for another dish.
  • Melt the butter and brush the insides of the potato skins. Bake them hollow-side down for about 10 minutes.
  • Remove the potatoes, brush the outside of the skins with butter, and gently turn them over so the hollow side is up. Bake for another 15 minutes, or until the skin gets crispy and the edges start to brown.
  • Sprinkle the cheese and bacon over the potato skins and return them to the oven for a few minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbling.
  • Serve with sour cream and chopped green onion.

Nutrition information provided is an estimate only and will vary based on ingredient brands and cooking methods used.

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I'm Izzy, a food lover and photographer. Here you’ll find a collection of simple recipes that are perfect for busy people. My blog aims to help you make and enjoy delicious and healthy food at home.

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