PBCC & J rolls
09.20.2010 
My silly 3-year-old has quite a unique way of eating his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He pulls all of the pieces apart and spreads them around on his plate, face up. Then he devours the pieces with jelly and licks any remnants of jelly off the peanut butter pieces. Which is peculiar, because he loves peanut butter. He would rather eat that from a spoon, though (like mama, like son!).
I found a creative way to make him a (not-at-all-healthy) spin-off of a PB&J so that he eats it all! Every last crumb. No sticky, peanut buttery mess to clean up after this is done.
Place a piece of bread on a cutting board. (I always use whole wheat bread to add something of nutritional value.) With a rolling pin, roll the bread out as flat as possible.
Cut off the crust edges with a knife to create a nice square-shaped piece of smooshed bread.
Put a stripe of jelly down the center of the bread. I like to put the jelly in the center so it doesn't squish out the sides once the rolling happens.
Spread peanut butter on one side of the jelly and cream cheese on the other side. Or you could put peanut butter on both sides.
Starting at either the PB or CC side, gently roll the bread with your fingers until it becomes a roll.
Slice one-inch pieces off with a knife and serve to a hungry child!
I made this twice for this particular photo shoot since my first one did not turn out very pretty. While I was shooting round two, Elijah had his little self wedged in our open fridge as he gobbled down every single one of my un-pretty rolls. And then he ate the second batch. And yes, I fed him vegetables for dinner that night.
Reader Comments (7)
This is something I can actually do...and, my little guy might even like it too!!!
This reminds me of what my Mom used to do when my sister and I were little, she would do the same with the bread except she would spread the whole slice with PB and then wrap it around a banana and slice it into 'coins'. If you little one likes bananas that might be a fun one to try too :)
One of my 2 year old daughters eats her PB&J the same way and it drives me crazy. I can't wait to try this...she's gonna love it! And I'm sure her twin (the dainty eater) will love it too!
Love love love the peanut butter-banana coins idea. Must try this!
Never thought to add cream cheese to a pb & j! Can't wait to try it out!
this looks amazing!
definitely will be trying this i like the idea of wrapping it around a banana,
thanks for sharing.
I made these for my son when he was little. I called them Peanut Butter Sushi. Cream cheese on them would be so good.