So yesterday had one of the most epic show downs in college football for the 2014 season: Auburn Tigers at Mississippi State Bulldogs! It was an awesome game. Along with said game was some awesome food too! For my Saturday football showdown I prepared Nutella Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing, Pizza Pull-a-Part Bread, and Crockpot Hamburger Dip. They were so good.
Nutella CupCakes with Cream Cheese Icing:
Ingredients:
-CupCakes (12 cupcakes): 1cup Nutella, 10Tbs Self rising flour, 2 eggs, 1-2Tbs milk
-Icing (enough icing for 24 cupcakes): 8oz cream cheese (softened), 5 1/2cups powdered sugar, 5Tbs butter (softened), 2Tbs vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix all cupcake ingridents. Divide mixture into a 12 cupcake tin lined with cupcake liners. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Once finished remove cupcakes from tin to cool. For Icing, mix all ingridents in a bowl with a hand mixer, till smooth. If icing is too liquid add more sugar or cool in refrigerator for a few minutes. Once icing is desired consistency, frost cupcakes as desired.
Pizza Pull-a-Part Bread:
Ingridents: 2 cans pizza dough, 1/3cup EVOO, 6oz package pepperoni, 2cups shredded monzarella cheese, 1cup shredded Parmesan cheese, 2Tbs Italian Seasoning.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut up pizza dough into quarter-size chunks. Place chunks in bowl with EVOO and coat. Chop-up pepperoni and add to bowl. Add seasoning and cheeses to bowl and stir well. Pour mixture into a bunt cake pan and bake for 30 minutes. Once finished remove pan. Take a rubber spatula or butter knife and run around inside of pan, then flip bread over onto plate. Serve with marinara sauce.
Crockpot Hamburger Dip
Ingridents: 1pound ground beef, 10oz can diced tomatoes, 8oz cream cheese (softened), 2cups shredded cheese (I chopped up some Velveeta), 1/2 cup real bacon bits.
Brown beef in large skillet or medium pot and drain (I used a a pot because I'm bad at spilling things when I stir). Return meat to stove top and add in cream cheese. Once cream cheese is well incorporated add in tomatoes and other ingridents. Once the cheeses are melted pour mixture into crockpot. Let sit in crockpot 1 1/2-2 hours on low heat. Serve with tortilla chips.
All the food was delicious, except for my cupcakes. I read the directions wrong and baked them at 400 degrees instead of 325. So they were a bit dry (a lot according to my husband), but the icing was delicious. I just dipped my cupcake in milk and that helped. But for them being dry, Dusty ate 3 of them!
Anyways, once the food was ready it was time for the big game! I'm a big Aubutn fan, as well as a Mississippi State fan. So I really had to look within and decide who I wanted to win. In the end, I went with MSU, I just have a feeling that this is their year. Not to completely turn my back on my tigers, I did wear my Auburn jersey. Dusty said I was sending mixed signals.
Once the game got going I was super happy for my Bulldogs, but I was upset for my Tigers. Mississippi came out the gates with all Pistons firing, Auburn not so much. What I was wanting was for Mississippi State to win, but for Auburn to play a great game and give them a run for their money. Auburn did improve throughout the game, but Dak Prescott and those MSU Bulldogs never looked back after that first kickoff! Coach Dan Mullen looked so proud of his team last night it was amazing. Likewise, I have never seen Coach Gus Malzahn so upset and angry looking (reminded me of Nick Saban)! There were some questionable calls during the game, but isn't there bad calls in every game? Anyways, it was a great game and I'm glad I was able to watch it. Hopefully MSU will now be #1 and Auburn will still be in the top 10 come Sunday's polls.
Well try the recipes, give me feed back , and Hail State!
-Lesli
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