Here goes nothing
Edit: I didn’t like it :(
I don’t know if I ate wrong or what but this just tastes super weird. No idea why it’s so popular
Edit 2: I just remembered I loved peanuts dipped in honey as a kid. That’s kinda similar. I wonder why I didn’t like this then.
What was your ratio roughly? I’ve found you need less peanut butter than you think and more jelly than you think. When it’s right it’s usually a nice mix of sweet and salty. However it’s of course not for everyone!
Oh maybe you’re right. I used roughly equal amounts of both
Yea, bad ratio for sure, need way less jam. I find apple butter a better complement to peanut butter, and you want a thin layer.
Plus most peanut butters today are sweetened, making this sandwich problematic.
The idea behind jelly (or other sweeteners) was peanut butter lacks sweetness, it just has salt.
Get some organic/natural peanut butter, it’ll have a different taste than the sweetened crap.
I used non sweetened peanut butter. I have that at home anyway because I make some savory dishes with peanut butter.
Then it was too much jam/jelly. Should be maybe as much as you put on toast, like 1/8 the amount of peanut butter, as it’s very sweet.
That said, it may just not be your… jam… 😁
I agree with natural pb - no added corn syrup. I also like using a cheaper whole wheat bread - same spongy texture as a normal american white bread, but with a but more flavor.
Apple butter I’m split on. I see the main role of the jelly in a pb&j as a lubrication agent to make the pb and bread not choke you to death, and I think you’d need a lot of apple butter to get there. Also, I feel like the milder flavor of the apple butter would be overwhelmed by the pb. I prefer using strawberry preserves as my jelly, which has the additional benefit of adding an aspect of heterogeneity to the sandwich.