You won’t believe how easy to make (or addicting) this 4-ingredient peanut butter & jelly freezer fudge is.
In a passing comment to my boss, I mentioned how details weren’t my strong suit. He seemed surprised for a moment, which honestly, unbeknownst to him, was a huge compliment, because when I say I’m not a details kinda gal, I mean it. You know on job descriptions where it says “attention to detail”? Yeah, I shouldn’t be hired for those jobs. I’m waaaay over on the other side of the spectrum when it comes to skills. I love the big ideas, creativity, collaboration, production, exploration. I have a hard time caring about the little details because they just don’t register as important to me. Obviously they are in a lot of fields, eh hem finance, medicine, law. Luckily I knew myself well enough to steer clear of any of those.
For most of my life, with a guilty heart I battled against this weakness. I always felt bad that I had such an apathy towards dotting “i’s” and crossing “t’s.” I was too busy trying to sell my homemade creations at craft fairs, design duct tape dresses and taking improv classes to learn how to spell. Seriously, thank god for spell check, which I still manage to evade all too often.
However as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that, heck it’s ok to not be a details person, as long as you’re self aware. Really, this goes for most strengths and weaknesses. We all have ‘em. And the cool part is, because we’re so different, there are people out there that can actually compliment us. If you know what you’re great at, get better at it rather than waste that time trying to marginally improve something you were never born to be great at. Then work with people who are great at what you hate and you all win.
At my last job, I had the pleasure to work with someone who was amazing with organization, timelines, schedules, details and all that jazz. I got to help her with the crazy big idea brainstorming and production and she helped facilitate the details of brining it to life.
So what does this have to do with peanut butter and jelly freezer fudge? Well my friends, this recipe is a perfect example of how a right-brainer like me, likes to get creative in the kitchen. With simple ingredients, not a ton of fuss or need for perfection, just great flavors that make your body happy.
All the recipes on this blog are perfect for gals like me who don’t have patience or the attention to detail to follow a 23-ingredient 30-step recipe. Instead, I keep it stupid simple so you can get to enjoying your creations and maybe even spark inspiration for your own versions too.
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4-ingredient peanut butter and jelly freezer fudge
- 1 Cup of Creamy Peanut Butter* (or Almond Butter)
- 1/3 Cup of Maple Syrup or Honey
- 1/3 Cup of Coconut Oil
- 1/4 Cup of Strawberry Jam
- *Choose a nut butter that is solid when room temperature like Peanut Butter Co, JIF or Barney Butter
- In a small microwave safe dish melt 1/3 cup of coconut oil until liquid (about 30 seconds in the microwave)
- In a large mixing bowl add together the coconut oil, peanut butter and maple syrup and stir until well combined
- Line an 8″ square pan with parchment paper and pour mixture into pan so it’s filled evenly
- Swirl in jam using a fork so it’s evenly marbled across the pan
- Leave in the freezer overnight
- Cut into 25 pieces of fudge
- Store in the freezer
- Keep for up to 6 months
Your Turn:
- If you had to choose, are you more of a big idea or details person?
Oh my, these look divine! I always thought that fudge is complicated and so hard to make, I never dared to try them out, but your recipe sounds so simple, I have to give it a try! Also, I have to tell, I’m so not a detail person I can’t even tell! – Love, Anna
I think a lot of it can be but thanks to the magic of peanut butter this is an easy hack!
I’m totally a right-brain person too!! 🙂 I’d rather focus on the details than the big picture because I love to get creative too. This fudge looks UNREAL!
Thanks Marina! Love being able to work/hang out with with creative souls
Freezer fudge is SO fun! Fun fact: I’ve been making Mark PB&Js for work for the past few weeks, and he’s been LOVING them! Perhaps I’ll switch it up one day and just send him to work with a bunch of this fudge 😉
Haha I don’t think I’d be mad if my sandwich turned into fudge
It’s funny, when it comes to life-stuff, I tend to pay too much attention to details. But with food/cooking, I’m the complete opposite. I cook things “wrong,” never measure and guess at cooking times (and usually have to put stuff back in the oven). I think that’s why I prefer cooking over baking. All that to say, I love your mindset behind recipes 🙂
Oh totally! I’m so bad at following the directions to a T because I just want to do it my way. Luckily if I know WHY I have to add a certain thing/amount I can do it better but I hate anything that’s arbitrary
You are the yin to my yang.
The PB to my J <3
I’m not a details person either and could never follow a long recipe with many ingredients and directions! That’s why I love simple, easy and creative recipes like this!
Thanks Rach! Clearly we’re on the same page <3
LOVE PB&J, but it can be pretty sticky in the heat of summer when you want something cold. This works 🙂
Exactamundo!
This fudge is amazing. I wrote a whole post about whether you see the big picture or just the details. I’m EXTREMELY detail-oriented; I love forms, etc. and would prob be great in some job like accounting or coding. It’s hard for me to step outside and look at what’s happening around me sometimes and a skill I need to work on refining!
Can’t wait to read that. We’d be an epic team then! I love working with details people
Eeeeeee this looks SO AMAZING! Pinning this for when I am home. Btw who’s that crazy organized chick from your last job? 😉
1+1=3 fo lyfe
This freezer fudge looks incredible. I just got a jar of Justin’s vanilla almond butter that would be perfect for this!
Omg. That would be perfect! Let me know how that goes.
Oh my goodness these look so good. I need to make them ASAP. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Kristin!
This fudge looks incredible! PB&J is such a classic. I’m an extreme details person to the point where the big picture paralyzes me a little bit, since details pull me in a million directions!
We’d make the perfect team then!
Did you think of me when creating this? Because I’ve been quite into fudgey fun – of the homemade chocolate variety – and my peanut butter addiction seems to get stronger by the day. This fudge looks amazing.
It’s funny you’d mention spell check because that helped me decide that I’m very much a detail person. I can’t read anything without mentally correcting the errors and my family always lets me check any important documents they write. It’s in fact a passion of mine.
We’d be a great team then, I love when people can help me edit because I have so little patience.
When I first started in management consulting, I got a TON of feedback that I needed to pay more attention to details. Now it’s ingrained in me to make sure that my powerpoints are all aligned perfectly and that I’ve double checked everything, although that definitely had to be trained!
I feel your pain. There were definitely teachers/bosses who didn’t love that I wasn’t careful with the details but I just know when it matters it’ll take me an extra long time to make sure everything is perfect.
I would not have guessed that you’re not a details person, because you do detailed things so well Georgie, but I’m not a details person either, so that gives me hope that I can pay attention and take care for details too! 🙂 I also love, love, love simple recipes for the same reason. They are straightforward, and they leave less room for error.
I am a bit of both I think. I lean more to the big ideas kinda gal though and have to be brought back down to earth to do the details and figure the how out… but like you said that is what a team is for!! I am good at details when I have to be but definitely when its only a necessity ha. The fudge looks amazing – obvs 🙂