Peanut butter and jam (or jelly, if you must) together is a combination without parallel. It’s not just the juxtaposition of salty and sweet, or of creamy and tart, or of dense and light — it is all of these things, and something more.
Personally I always thought peanut butter and jam was gross and peanut butter and honey was where it’s at, and while honey and everything to do with it will always hold a special place in my cupboard, since I tried PB&J two years ago everything has changed. Honey is too subtle, too potentially cloying; jam can survive being smothered with peanut butter and adds flavour that contrasts instead of blends. Just like in these recipes! (See what I did there.)
1. Ultimate Scratch-Made Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
via Love and Olive Oil
You have to crawl before you can walk.
2. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich with Potato Chips
via Hannah Hart
3. Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
via Epicurious
4. Deep Fried Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
via Leite’s Culinaria
5. Peanut Butter and Rhubarb Jelly Hot French Toast Sandwich
via Half-Baked Harvest
6. PB&J Tartine
via Epicurious
7. PB&J Crepes
via Epicurious
8. Peanut Butter and Jelly Date Smoothie
via minimalist baker
9. Peanut Butter and Jelly Chia Pudding
via The Minimalist Baker
10. PB&J Popcorn
via Feasting on Fruit
11. Peanut Butter and Jelly Snack Bars
via The Minimalist Baker
12. Peanut Butter and Jelly Crumb Muffins
via How Sweet It Is
13. Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins (Vegan, Gluten-Free)
via The Minimalist Baker
14. Chickpea Thumbprint Cookies (Vegan, Gluten-Free)
via The Colorful Kitchen
15. Peanut Butter and Fig Preserves Cookies
via How Sweet It Is
16. Peanut Linzer Cookies with Strawberry Chocolate Ganache
via Love and Olive Oil
17. Cocoa Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich Cookies
via A Brown Kitchen
18. Peanut Butter and Jelly Macarons
via Eats Well With Others
19. Peanut Butter and Jelly Popsicles (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)
via Fork and Beans
20. PB&J Marshmallows
via Bakerella
21. Chocolate PB&J Cups (Vegan)
via Love and Lemons
22. PB&J Baked Oatmeal
via The Roasted Root
23. Peanut Butter and Jelly Pull-Apart Bread
via Hello, Wonderful
24. Mini Peanut Butter and Jelly Pop Tarts
via Broma Bakery
25. Glazed Peanut Butter and Jelly Doughnuts with Strawberry-Rhubarb Chia Jelly
via Half-Baked Harvest
26. Peanut Butter, Banana and Jelly “Ice Cream”
via Epicurious
27. Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream
via Saveur
28. Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream Sandwiches
via Perpetually Hungry
29. No-Bake PB&J Pie (Vegan, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free)
via The Minimalist Baker
30. PB&J Grain-Free Breakfast Cake
via Imma Eat That
31. Peanut Butter and Jelly Cake
via Confessions of a Cookbook Queen
32. Banana Peanut Butter Jelly Cake
via The Little Epicurean
I used to not like pb&j. It was one of those things that as a non-American, I thought I would never get. Then, one day I got hungry and desperate in college, and pb&j sandwiches were the most substantive thing in the vending machine. After that they became a favourite of mine! Thank you for this list, I can’t wait to try some of them!
Full disclose I think PB&J is blah to nah, but I’m also team cake that bakes birthday pie for loved ones so here’s a three ingredient gluten free peanut butter cookie recipe
1 egg
1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
8-12 minutes at 350 or 325 if your oven runs hot
I use it for thumbprint style PB&J cookies, like one of the recipes listed, all of the time .
Everybody loves them, from finicky small newphling who won’t eat PB&J together as a sandwich to adults with celiac that miss their childhood snack.
It’s like you knew I was planning to have a PB&J for dinner in between hanging out with a friend(crush?) and my late night class! Wish I had some potato chips to put in it, that was a childhood favorite
Best food porn ever.
i feel so unseen! where’s the dissenting food post to counter this one? and what’s next, a cilantro post??
(hashtag jokes…tho also pbj no THANKS)
A cilantro post sound like a great idea!!! :D :D :D :D
*laughs evilly and turns into a Trump minion*
I have always wanted a post made of cilantro, Avawn. Can you tell me where I can get one? Thanks!?
Somehow “a post made of cilantro” translated into some hollow fiberglass fence post filled with cilantro, I’m sure that’s not what you meant.
But that would be useful, big giant container of herbs for cooking.
I though of a post similar to a cat scratching post made of cilantro. I want one now. Arts and crafts idea thanks to sexy Bae! Woot Woot!
thought*
Idk Avawn, I’m pretty sure the pro-cilantro among us are on the right side of history!
y’all don’t understand how much i wish i liked cilantro. i’m pretty sure i have that genetic thing that makes it taste wrong. and it’s just so so bad. :'(
You need cilantro in your life if you want to enjoy my tacos!
But yeah, I think I read somewhere that it is a genetic thing. If it helps, I can’t drink plain milk because it tastes and smells bad to me.
I HATE JELLY! I only eat peanut butter sandwiches with lots and lots of milk.
These pictures are nice tho…oooooOOO
Also another great thing about PB&J is that both peanut butter and jelly (or jam, do your thing) are pretty easy to make at home if you want to feel badass and domestic and impress all of your friends.. Hell, you can even make the bread if you’re feeling extra fancy!
Grilled PB&J is one of the most highly underrated foods in my opinion.
How about Elvis favorite PBJ sandwich. It has bacon and bananas in it.
HOW can you miss the always great pb&j pizza?
http://www.sweetanddelish.com/peanut-butter-and-jelly-pizza/
These look like fun! =D
This is amazing, now all I want in life is to try every recipe here. Though I have to admit the grilled PB&J is a childhood favorite, and yes highly underrated.
In another take on the made-famous-by-elvis PB&B, there is an Elvis burger… strange but surprisingly good:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g60898-d435138-i36745139-The_Vortex-Atlanta_Georgia.html
I need to try that deep-fried pb&j sandwich. Whats everyone’s favorite jam? Mines is orange.