Easy Game Day Party Food Recipes (2024)

Last Updated on: 21st January 2024, 05:43 am

From tasty appetizers to yummy desserts, these Easy Game Day Party Food Recipes translate to a game day menu your guests will love! All of these delicious recipes can be made ahead and the main dishes can be served in slow cookers so the hosts can enjoy the big game too. Some recipes are: Vegetarian, Vegan, and gluten-free.

When I’m hosting a crowd, I want to plan a game day recipe menu and make the food ahead so I can sit down and enjoy the game with my friends. I don’t want to be in the kitchen with last minute prep, serving and cleaning up instead of partying too. With these great recipes, you won’t need to either!

Game Day Food

Hot appetizers are the best! Yummy, warm and filling. Below, you’ll find a combination of hot and cold appetizers along with two slow cooker recipes and two soup recipes that will WOW your guests

• three chicken wing recipes- one fried and two air fryer recipes
• Italian antipasto platter
• Lebanese Baba Ganoush
• Bruschetta with Cream Cheese
• Bacon and Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms
• Asian Hoisin Beef Kabobs
• Chicken Pesto Puff Pastry Appetizer
• Slow Cooker Chili and cornbread
• Slow Cooker Italian Pulled Pork
• Shrimp and Sausage Jambalaya Soup
• Ham Potato and White Bean Soup
• Easy Luscious Lemon Cheesecake + VIDEO
• No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Pie
• Authentic Italian Tiramisu
• Red, White and Blue Mini Berry Trifles

Share these recipes with your friends and make it a potluck!

Easy Game Day Party Food Recipes

Let’s start with some appetizers…shall we?!

Appetizers

Chicken Wings

Crispy Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings (low-carb)

Prep time: 10 min

Makes: 8 servings

They’re seasoned with garlic, then fried and topped with grated Parmesan cheese. Delicious! Make them ahead and reheat them before serving.

Air Fryer Honey Teriyaki Chicken Wings

Prep time: 5 min

Makes: 8 servings

Featured in Parade.com, these finger-licking chicken wings are baked in an air fryer with a yummy honey-garlic teriyaki wing sauce. Yes, they’re that GOOD! Plus, they’re gluten-free!

Asian Sticky Chicken Wings

Prep time: 5 min

Makes: 4 servings

Asian Sticky Chicken Wings are a sticky, delicious, hot appetizer made with honey and Asian Hoisin sauce and baked to perfect. Gluten-free option.

Prep time: 15 min

Makes: 12 servings

Learn to how to make your own Italian antipasto platter with this instructional post and video. Learn how to arrange meats, cheeses, olives, etc. and garnish it to make it a beautiful appetizer for entertaining. Low-carb and gluten-free

Lebanese Baba Ganoush Eggplant Dip

Prep time: 5 min

Makes: 8 servings

This delicious eggplant dip is made with roasted eggplant and is smoky and garlicky. Lebanese Baba Ganoush is a wonderful cold appetizer to serve alongside or instead of hummus. Vegan and gluten-free

Bruschetta with Cream Cheese

Prep time: 5 min

Makes: 8 servings

Move over plain bruschetta because I have something better! This Bruschetta with Cream Cheese recipe is made with ripe garden grape tomatoes, a creamy cheese mixture then topped with basil ribbons and balsamic glaze! Vegetarian

Easy Bacon and Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms

Prep time: 15 min

Makes: 24 stuffed mushrooms

These Bacon and Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms melt in your mouth! These beauties are made with cream cheese, scallions, mayonnaise, bacon, blue cheese and some seasonings. They can be made ahead and I promise you won’t have leftovers!

Puff Pastry Pesto Chicken Bites

Prep Time: 15 min

Makes: 24 servings

These tasty chicken puff pastry appetizers are made with a mixture of chicken, cream cheese, pesto and sun dried tomatoes. Just mix a few ingredients, place them in puff pastry pieces, bake them and they’re done! They are not only tasty but, filling and easy-to-make!

Grilled Asian Hoisin Beef Kabobs

Prep Time: 15 min plus 7 hours marinating time

Makes: 15 mini skewers

These Grilled Asian Hoisin Beef Kabobs are marinated and grilled with veggies for those guests that are low carb and/or gluten free. It’s so hard to please everyone but, with these tasty kabobs, you’ll have a chance. Sub out chicken or shrimp in this recipe if you wish.

You may also likeAsian Sticky Chicken Wings or Air Fryer Honey Garlic Chicken Wings featured on Parade.com.

Main Dishes and Soup

Loaded Slow Cooker Chili with Corn

Prep Time: 20 min

Makes: 10 Servings

Chili is a favorite for game day gawkers! You’ll find a line at this slow cooker chili. It’s loaded with beef, beans, bell peppers, corn and seasonings. t’s so flavorful and hearty. Served with warm corn spoonbread, you won’t need to make much of anything else.

Easy Cornbread with whole kernel corn

Prep Time: 5 min

Makes: 8 Servings

A great chili needs a great moist corn bread right? With just a few ingredients, you can make a moist and delicious corn bread to go with your fabulous chili!

One Pot Jambalaya with Shrimp and Andouille Sausage

Prep Time: 10 min

Makes: 6 Servings

Jambalaya is a popular dish to begin with but, adding shrimp and Andouille sausage puts this jambalaya over the top! This recipe is full of creole and tomato flavor! Serve it from your slow cooker!

One Pot Ham, Potato and Bean Soup

Prep Time: 20 min

Makes: 16 Servings

This One Pot Ham Potato and Bean soup is a savory soup made with a ham bone, which adds so, so much flavor! Your guests will want this delicious recipe. Substitute your favorites beans in this soup.

Slow Cooker Italian Pulled Pork with Rosemary and Garlic

Prep Time: 10 Min

Makes: 16 Servings

Italian Pork sandwiches are just what a crowd of hungry guys wants to eat. This pork is full of flavor and so easy to prep, cook and serve in the Crock Pot. Set it and forget it!

Game Day Desserts

Easy Creamy Lemon Cheesecake

Prep Time: 10 min.

Makes: 6 Servings

This Creamy Lemon Cheesecake is “for real” creamy and full of lemon flavor! Double the batch to make a cheesecake to feed a crowd. The graham cracker crust for a double batch is included.

No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Pie

Prep time: 5 min

Makes: 8 Servings

This No-Bake Peanut Butter Cup Pie is a creamy, chocolate peanut butter dessert. It’s not super sweet, nor too rich and is very simple to make.

Authentic Italian Tiramisu

Prep time: 15 min

Makes: 10 Servings

Authentic Italian recipe Tiramisu is a creamy, light-tasting, no-bake dessert that tastes great at the end of any meal. With just 6 ingredients, 15 minutes of prep time and several hours to set in the refrigerator, you can EASILY make this delicious (non-alcoholic) Italian dessert.

Easy Angel Food Cake Mini Berry Trifles

Prep time: 30 min

Makes: 12 Servings

These individual berry desserts are as tasty as they are cute! Plus, there are so many team colors that use red, white and blue. Make with cream cheese, Cool Whip and condensed milk, add a some blue berries and strawberries and your in dessert heaven! Serve them in disposable cups for easy clean up.

Therefore, youe big game day party will be a hit! With these Easy Game Day Party Food Recipes you can serve in the slow cooker and make ahead, you’ll get to have fun watching the game along with your friends. You don’t want to miss that great player-to-player pass.

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NOTE: This post was updated on January 1, 2023.