Michelle Darmody: How to bake peanut butter and jelly cookies

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches once held a fairytale like aura, far removed from 1980s Ireland.

The combination does take a little getting used to in a sandwich but works very well in baking when you expect a sweet flavour hit

Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 - 01:00

Michelle Darmody is a baking expert and writer, as well as an award-winning author. Michelle works across food education, sustainability and food policy and has a Doctorate in Culinary Arts.

PB+J is an Americanism that has travelled across the Atlantic. Hearing about, and seeing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on television programmes as a child gave them the air of exotic mystery.

In the same mystified way that Enid Blyton’s characters tucked into ginger beer and jam tart picnics on forest floors and on craggy beaches, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches held a fairytale like aura, far removed from 1980s Ireland.