peanut butter partners

we made these this weekend partly because the name of the recipe was so cute. it reminds me of cowboys and holding hands. when we'd finished them i thought this would be something i bet i'll make for our children that they'll really love. these and the castles of hardened sugar i hope to master.

you take a baguette, slice into 1 inch thick pieces, make sandwiches of the slices with peanut butter and banana, put them in a baking dish, dump magic sauce on them (eggs, milk, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar, dash of salt), refrigerate overnight, bake the next morning in a 450 degree oven for 12 minutes, (turning after 6 minutes), plate them (more banana slices on top and some maple syrup) and buckle up for the tastiest thing you've had before 11 am since forever.

they're seriously something that should be served at a fair next to the funnel cake except most people would tell you that you can't eat funnel cake for breakfast and i'm here to tell you peanut butter partners are definitely for dessert. i mean breakfast.

here they are all stacked up and really excited about the future that awaits them.

bathing in the magic sauce. when you take them out the next morning they've pretty much soaked it all up. pigs!

ohhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhh. also real maple syrup? you know you're at a parents place when...

one bite in! sometimes when you cut a piece off, melted peanut butter oozes out the sides and you think you've died and gone to heaven and you feel relieved knowing heaven serves really decadent breakfasts.