We all know, Super Bowl is more than football! Cue the food, commercials and halftime. Win the Super Bowl party trophy with these recipes!

Yes, there are some of us who love the game! And for the rest, there’s the party, the fun commercials and the over-the-top halftime show.

And for ALL of us, there’s the food!!!

If you made your way here from Lynne at My Family Thyme, a hearty welcome!!! Her Mexican dip looked amazing, right?

Let’s get right to it!

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Pull-Apart Pizza

Pull apart pizza is almost like focaccia, but more tender. It’s all about the dough, the dipping sauces and the flavorful mix-in’s you choose.

The level of ooey gooey cheesy goodness is up to you. Same with all the pizza mix-ins you want to add. Use my quantities as a starting point.

The Dough:

Because the main feature is the dough, I prefer to make my own. My go-to-pizza dough recipe is included on the recipe card just a bit below.

Mix-in Suggestions:

I specified 2 cups of shredded mozzarella, but in my cheese addicted opinion, that’s the minimum. I usually also add whatever bits and pieces of grate-able cheese I have in the fridge.

I’m actually a bigger fan of Italian sausage than I am pepperoni, so I’d substitute if that’s acceptable to the clan (or if I want more to myself).

Diced roasted red peppers, caramelized onion bits, bacon would all be great! Really your imagination is the only limitation. keep in mind that they should be diced or fairly small bits to mix through all the pizza dough.

Dipping Sauces:

Just stating the obvious: Sauce makes everything better!

Can I get an amen?

Pull apart pizza needs the sauces!!!!

Serve with bowls of your choice of dipping sauces:

• your favorite bread dipping oil (like Carrabba’s perhaps)
• marinara or pizza sauce
• ranch dressing
• pesto alfredo sauce
• garlic aioli

Assembling the Pull Apart Pizza:

1) With kitchen sheers, cut the dough into small pieces onto a cookie sheet

2) Place sheet of dough bits back in proofing oven for 15 min. This second rise is optional.

3) Preheat oven to 400F

4) In your dough bowl, whisk the garlic butter, olive oil and seasonings until incorporated. Stir in meat and any other mix-ins, then the cheese. Mix in dough bits by hand, tossing gently to thoroughly mix.

5) Transfer to football pan

6) Bake at 400 for 30 – 35 minutes

7) While pizza bakes, slice mozzarella string cheese to width and length for the lacing and stripes

8) Remove from oven. Brush top with marinara or pizza sauce to color thee football, add lacing and stripes of string cheese.

9) Place football back in the oven until cheese accents melt

Recipe Notes:

Pizza Dough Substitutions

I like to make my own Pizza Dough, but feel free to substitute any pizza dough you prefer — store bought, mix, frozen — but it needs to still rise while baking. You do NOT want a baked pizza crust that’s ready to just heat.

Prepare the Pan for Football Shaped Pizza

It’s the Super Bowl so that requires a bit of showmanship, a bit of fanfare, right? So let’s make this a Pull-Apart Football Shaped Pizza, complete with lacing and stripes.

Use a 9 x 13 pan.

Print out my pattern sized to fit the pan exactly — corner to diagonal corner! The pattern is in the Printables Library available to all South House Designs subscribers.

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Thanks Bunches! Now back to our pizza:

The Football Pattern:

There is a right half and left half. Print them, cut them out and overlap and tape together.

You’ll use the football pattern twice. First while transforming a boring 9 X 13 dish into a football mold.

And then again, while your pizza dish is baking, you’ll use it in preparing the mozzarella string cheese lacing and stripes.

For the football shape:

Tear off four pieces of foil about 12-inches long. Wad them loosely to start into a long triangular shape

Tear off two pieces of foil to overlap to generously fill the pan including up and over the sides

Lay the large foil over the pan and gently press to the bottom.

Lay the pattern in the bottom diagonally on top. Press down and fold the foil up along the edge of the football.

Fill the triangular-ish empty corners with the foil wads, shaping them to just fill the voids.

Fold the large foil over these fillers and over the lip of the pan.

Replace the football pattern with a piece of parchment cut to the football shape.

Add strips of parchment to be the walls of your football shape. Don’t worry, they’ll stand up once you start loading the pizza in to bake.

Now your pan is ready for when you assemble your pizza.

Remember to save the pattern to the side to help you with the lacing and stripes. Prep these string cheese details by setting them on the pattern. After baking, baste with marinara sauce for a bit of football color and add the lacing and stripes. Put it back in the oven until the cheese melts.

Serve warm with dipping sauces!

I hope you enjoy this recipe. It’s like the best of dipping yummy warm flavorful bread and ooey gooey cheese in one! Two of my culinary love languages right in one!!!

Hmmm, maybe we’ll have it for super bowl and then again for Valentine’s Day!!!

Be sure to add this pin to your recipes board, or your watch party board, or your snacking board or wherever it makes sense for you.

More Champion Super Bowl Food Recipes

Remember I said I had a team of Entertaining Champions all sharing their favorites. Just look at all the yumminess waiting for you!

And now I need to send you on to Wendy at WM Design House — the newly ordained Queen of Nachos! Tell Wendy I said “Hi”.

How will I ever decide? Maybe one of each and just invite more to the party?

Did we miss your favorite? Let me know what you love to serve (or nosh on) at watch parties.