Football 7-Layer Dip {College Football Tailgate Party}

Last week­end we had a super fun Nebraska foot­ball tail­gate party and made a an awe­some foot­ball ver­sion of a fam­ily favorite 7-layer dip. And, today, I’m shar­ing the direc­tions for that with you while I’ll actu­ally BE at the Nebraska game! It’s against Penn State and we can’t wait!!!

Ingre­di­ents:

• refried beans
• shred­ded cheese
• diced fresh tomatoes
• chopped let­tuce
• sliced black olives
• sour cream
• salsa
• gua­camole

Direc­tions:

Note: First off, I didn’t put amounts above because it greatly depends on what size con­tainer you’re mak­ing this in. His­tor­i­cally, my mom has used a texas sheet cake pan. The one pic­tured was actu­ally in a broiler pan. So, you’ll just want to make sure you have a fair amount of the ingre­di­ents. There are also a TON of pos­si­ble vari­a­tions you can do like green chiles (diced), ground beef, chopped green onions, diced jalapenos, etc. But, we tend to like things a lit­tle less spicy.

To make, essen­tially you just layer the ingre­di­ents. To make the foot­ball ver­sion, we started by smooth­ing out the beans on the bot­tom of the pan. Then, sour cream, salsa, shred­ded cheese, toma­toes & diced olives, let­tuce, and finally topped with guacamole.

To get the yard lines & hash marks, you just pipe on sour cream. To do that, we just globbed some sour cream in a bag­gie & cut the cor­ner off. Super easy! I was actu­ally pleas­antly sur­prised at how nicely the sour cream piped! Then, of course, if you hap­pen to ran­domly have some foot­ball cake dec­o­rat­ing items like my mom had (which had a copy­right date of 1974 on the bot­tom!!!!), then you can add those to your foot­ball field 7-layer dip. It makes a great food cen­ter­piece for a tail­gate party!

Now it’s your turn!!!…

 Col­lege Foot­ball Sat­ur­day Tail­gate Link Party