These peanut butter and jelly cupcakes by Smells Like Home are my favorite nostalgic childhood sandwich turned into a cupcake!

 These peanut butter and jelly cupcakes by Smells Like Home are my favorite nostalgic childhood sandwich turned into a cupcake!

Years ago, I shared a peanut butter and jelly bar with you that completely rocked my socks. What I didn’t tell you at the time (or any other time in the 8+ years I’ve been writing here), in the midst of my lamenting about the intrinsic greatness of this very American combination, was that I have a very particular way about how I like to make a pb&j sandwich.

It’s more of a “special occasion” pb&j version, which is to say, it happens no more than a couple times of year. And I’m pretty sure it will gross some of you out but here goes:

You take the whitest of white breads, slather equal parts creamy peanut butter – never crunchy – on one slice and strawberry jam on the other. Andthenandthenandthen!!

You add a hefty layer of Nacho Cheese Doritos atop the peanut butter before sandwiching the two sides together. Alternate combinations have included Cool Ranch Doritos and also just plain salty ridged potato chips. Both of the alternatives are also delish!

And to drink with this sandwich: an ice cold glass of chocolate milk on the side. Always and only chocolate milk with this sandwich!!

Yup! So there you have it. Probably my biggest food confession/guilty pleasure since I was a kid and now it’s out there for the world to know about.

And for the record, my cousin has been known to put puffy Cheetos on a tuna salad sandwich. So there’s that to compare me to. Ha!

ANYWAY! These peanut butter and jelly cupcakes do actually have some relevancy here aside from the ingredients. They are some KILLER cupcakes, causing almost as big of a ruckus in our house as the day my mom found out the aforementioned is how I like to eat my pb&j sandwiches.