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Pretzel Bar for a Super Bowl Football Party

by: Jo
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Chica and I have been on a homemade pretzel kick recently, so it was an easy leap for us to serve a pretzel bar at our upcoming Super Bowl party. We wanted to serve football-shaped pretzels, and display them in a really fun way. What if I painted peg board like a football field and hung the pretzels on it? Perfect!

While Chica was working on the pretzels, I got started on the display board. I had a perfect scrap of peg board in my craft room, and gave it a fresh, coat of Satin Enamels paint in a nice, bright white.

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

To mark off the 5-yard lines on the field, I applied 21 strips of washi tape, making 20 evenly-spaced areas on the field, plus two more double-sized areas for the endzones. I didn't need to use anything as decorative as washi tape, but it was thinner than regular masking tape, so it was perfect for this. Then I used regular painter's tape around the edges to mark off the sidelines (this also helped hold the washi tape in place!)

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

With all the lines marked, I used a roller to apply two coats of green acrylic paint over everything, to create the grass on the field.

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

I cut some numbers out of vinyl with my Silhouette machine to mark the lines, then added the 1-yard hashmarks on the sidelines with a white paint marker.

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

The result was a pretty amazing looking football field that would work perfectly for my pretzel bar! To finish it off, I added the logo for this year's Super Bowl in the middle. We want to be able to use this again next year so I made it easy to remove and replace — I laminated the logo and attached it to the field with some painter's tape on the back.

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

Meanwhile, Chica used Alton Brown's soft pretzel recipe to make pretzels, and shaped them into footballs. To make the shaping easier and consistent, she sketched a football pattern that we're happy to share with you. Just cover the printed pattern with wax paper and use it as a guide to form the pretzels.

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

It took time and patience, but it was worth it to get such awesome football-shaped pretzels!

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

Hanging the pretzels all over the field was super easy with some simple peg board hooks.

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

To go with the pretzels, I set out a selection of dips (cheese, spicy mustard, chocolate, and jalapeƱo mustard). And of course add some ice cold beers, and you have a party!

Pretzel bar for a Super Bowl football party

Pretzel Bar for a Super Bowl Football Party
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    LPStarr 01/26/2018 at 5:31 pm

    BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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