Peanut Butter Bacon Snacks

Saturday, October 18, 2014

First of all I feel the need to apologize to my Vegetarian Mom.. Second I feel like I need to apologize to my Paleo/Gluten Free friends... 

Now that we got that out of the way, I would like to introduce you to our new favorite snack/appetizer/sometimes breakfast... 

The idea for these came to me as I was reading my copy of The Essentially Lilly Guide to Colorful Entertaining by Lilly Pulitzer and Jay Mulvaney. In it there is a blurb about how when Lilly would have people over she would put them to work. "Good hostess that she is, she sets you up with a task- punching out bread rounds, chopping bacon, and spreading peanut butter to make one of her favorite 'crispy crits'- the minute you walk in the door" -pg. 4 

Peanut butter and bacon.. that sure sounded good to me but unfortunately the recipe wasn't in the book nor could I find it online so I googled peanut butter and bacon found a few different appetizers and then improvised! These definitely remind me of something my grandma would have made in the 50's which in my book is a good thing! 

Peanut Butter and Bacon Snacks
aka my version of Lilly Pulitzer's Crispy Crits

White Bread
White Chocolate Wonderful Peanut Butter
Bacon, cooked to crispy
Butter, melted

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees
2. Remove crusts from bread
3. Brush BOTH sides of bread with melted butter
4. Chop up your crispy bacon
5. Spread peanut butter on one side of the bread
6. Evenly distribute chopped bacon over your peanut butter bread
7. Cut bread slices into quarters
8. Place peanut butter bacon bread squares evenly on a baking stone
9. Cook for 8-10 minutes
10. Serve immediately and enjoy!!

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