PB&J Shot

Last week, millions of kids and teachers went back to school.  Millions of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches joined them.  To commemorate this event, I decided to make a PB&J Shotible.  Okay, I know that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches aren’t dessert items per se, but let’s be honest, they’re not far off.  It’s peanut butter (my favorite dessert ingredient) and a sugary fruit layered between a couple of pieces of cooked dough.  I think there’s an argument to be made here.

The ironic part of this is, although the PB&J Shotible is meant to honor the beginning of the school year, I cheated with this recipe more than I have with any other Shotible so far.  Sure, I’ve used a lot of prefab components over the course of this project like graham crackers, box cake mixes and canned whipped cream, but this time around, I took it a little further.  For the glass, I just opened up a can of premade dinner roll dough from the refrigerated section of the local grocery store.  I baked them up and cored the middles.

I did, however, make my own jelly.  I started with grape gelatin mix, but instead of using cold water, I chilled some red wine.  It’s funny because it took me a while to think of a grape flavored alcoholic beverage.  After the gelatin set, I mixed in some sugar to offset the dryness of the malbec wine.  I then filled each Shotible with smooth peanut butter from a jar and my home made wine jelly.  The result was a PB&J treat that should not be packed in a lunch box.