Celebrate National Peanut Butter Lovers Day With These Treats
Peanut Butter Bourbon Whiskey Treats: The Perfect Pairing For Your Fave Foodie Holiday
Peanut butter is one of America’s most beloved foods, with Americans spending almost $800 million each year on it. According to the National Peanut Board, that’s enough to give the bottom of the Grand Canyon one nice, generous coating of the stuff.
We are a peanut-butter-loving country, indeed!
But if you ask us, we think this is quite all right. After all, peanut butter isn’t just delicious. It is also full of lots of ingredients your body loves.
Is peanut butter good for you?
Peanut butter can certainly be good for you! You just have to be careful how you choose your jar of peanut butter. Our favorite peanut butter brand can’t be found on a shelf, for example. It’s the simple kind we make from scratch for ourselves and our meal delivery clients.
The problem is, so many of the ones you find on the store shelf are filled with added sugars, salt, and preservatives. But the fact of the matter is, peanut butter doesn’t need all of that stuff to be good. At its core, it should just be ground-up peanuts and a bit of salt. That’s all you need! So when you are checking the ingredients, watch for peanuts and salt on the ingredient label. That’s it—nothing more, nothing less.
But assuming you are eating the good stuff, you can count on some pretty good nourishment for your body, too. The benefits of peanut butter are vast. It gives you a healthy dose of proteins, heart-healthy fats, antioxidants, and other nutrients like magnesium, just to name a few.
Even more to love about National Peanut Lover’s Day!
But we live in Kentucky, so it would practically be a sin not to pair peanut butter with our other great love: bourbon.
So just for this very special occasion, we are sharing one of our very favorite secret recipes with you.
And lucky for you, bourbon is the star of the show!
Celebrate National Peanut Lover’s Day with these toothsome peanut-butter whiskey treats!
Sure, you could go tried and true with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but that is so boring. Many people choose to do an Elvis Presley Themed Peanut Butter Party (the King was a lover of peanut butter sandwiches but with an unusual twist – he added bananas and bacon to the lineup!).
But our peanut butter whiskey treats are all Kentucky and are as cute as a button when you serve them in mason jars. And they’ve got banana to boot.
We’re sure even Elvis would have approved.
Peanut Butter Whiskey Whipped Cream
Ingredients:
1 cup heavy whipping cream (you can substitute frozen coconut cream from the top of a can as well)
2 tbsp. powdered sugar, or to taste
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 ounces peanut butter-infused whiskey
Instructions:
Mix the ingredients together and whip until light and fluffy.
Paleo Peanut Butter Banana Pudding (with Bourbon!):
MAKES ABOUT 6 (4oz.) mason jars
PREP TIME 30 mins
CHILLING TIME 2 hrs
INGREDIENTS
For the Peanut Butter Banana Bourbon Pudding:
1 cup raw cashews soaked in water overnight and drained or one hour in hot water, rinsed and drained.
⅓ cup nut milk or dairy-free creamer (Milkadamia or Nut Pods are one of our faves)
2 ounces peanut-butter whiskey (Skrewball or similar)
⅓ cup maple syrup (check out this local Kentucky maple syrup!)
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp tapioca powder (or arrowroot powder)
a pinch of Himalayan salt
2 tsp pure vanilla extract (if you want to be bougie, add some vanilla bean paste or a vanilla bean with the seeds scraped)
½ large ripe banana - sliced about ½ cup
For the Nut Butter Swirl:
2 tbsp. sunflower butter, no sugar added, or any nut butter of your choosing
2 tbsp. maple syrup
1 tbsp. peanut-butter whiskey
pinch of salt
dairy-free milk, if desired to achieve a drizzly consistency
Other Ingredients:
1 ¼ cups coconut whipped cream divided (you can buy store-bought or make your own, see recipe above)
1 4.5 oz bag Siete Foods Mexican Wedding cookies (or any gluten-free vanilla wafer cookies or gluten-free shortbread cookies), broken into bite-size pieces
1 ripe banana, sliced into 1/4-inch pieces
Nut butter swirl (see recipe above)
INSTRUCTIONS
Add the cashews to a high-powered blender (I love my Vitamix!) and add the rest of the pudding ingredients. Let the mixture blend on low, then slowly turn the speed up to fully emulsify and scrape down as needed to achieve a super smooth consistency. (This may take a couple of minutes depending on the speed and power of your blender)
Meanwhile, stir the nut butter, maple syrup, whiskey, salt (and nut milk, if needed) together until smooth.
Store the pudding in a container and place a sheet of plastic wrap directly on the top of the pudding to prevent a weird skin from forming.
Assembly:
Once the pudding is chilled, add 1/2 cup of the whipped cream and fold in (be gentle; you can't do this if you're in a bad mood; the pudding knows!) until just incorporated.
Grab 6 small mason jars (4 oz. are perfect for single serving). Divide the cookies into the bottom of each glass. Spoon about a ⅓ cup of the peanut butter banana pudding, then add the banana slices on top. Drizzle the nut butter swirl on top.
Add a spoonful of the whipped cream on top. (If you use larger glasses, you can repeat until you fill the cup!)
Add the rest of the crushed cookie pieces and more nut butter swirl. Keep chilled until ready to enjoy. (Maybe stash a container or two in the fridge to enjoy for yourself!)
Beyond Peanut Butter & Jelly
The old saying goes, “What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.”
Well, we think the saying is doubly true for these peanut butter bourbon treats!
We hope our round-up of peanut butter whiskey recipes helps you celebrate one of the best food-related holidays of the year. And for the rest of the year? You don’t have to resort to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches….
How about peanut butter in a dessert, a sauce, or even incorporated into an entree?
Peanut butter offers a thousand ways to enjoy it, and we only shared a few of them here.
But the possibilities are endless. We invite you to explore them with us.
We love making things like peanut butter from scratch because we believe that natural ingredients are the best ingredients. But not everyone has time to make homemade broths, jams, jellies, and more. If you want to add a healthy lineup to your daily meals, and you live in the Lexington, Kentucky, or surrounding areas, check out our meal delivery services!
And if you live elsewhere in the country, definitely give a local chef a try! They know local ingredients where you live better than any mass-produced meal kit service ever could.