Nation's Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich

The winner of Sixth Annual Jif® Nation's Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich will be here live to show us how to make their creation.

Five finalists will put their creativity to the test and debut their peanut butter sandwiches for a panel of judges on March 20th. Each finalist will demonstrate how to prepare his/her sandwich in front of a live judging panel.

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One talented child will win a $25,000 scholarship fund and the title of the Nation's Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich. The four runners-up will also receive $2,500 scholarship funds. Find out what makes these five delicious creations the best out of thousands of entries. This is one "tasty" kicker that your viewers will be hungry to see!

Five finalists from Sixth Annual Jif® Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest(tm)

Kelsey, 11, Mountainville, NY - Peanut Butter Butterfly Panwiches
Charlie, 9, Hillsborough, NC - Jif Peanut Butter Club
Ian, 12, Shrewsbury, PA - Monstwich
Matt, 11, McMinnville, OR - P-Nutty Chicken Wrap
Samuel, 11, Riverside, CA - Crunchy Chinese Fortune Cookie Sandwich

For more info on the contest, log onto www.jif.com.

Sammy's recipe:

CRUNCHY CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIE SANDWICH

Ingredients:
4 slices of wheat bread

Sandwich Mix:
3 tablespoons Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
1 tablespoon finely diced celery
1 tablespoon finely diced apple

Chinese Dipping Sauce:
1/4 cup Jif Creamy Peanut Butter
1/4 cup coconut milk
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon chili powder

Directions:
To make the dipping sauce, combine all ingredients in small saucepan and cook over low heat while stirring with a wire wisk. When the mixture starts to bubble and thicken, remove from heat and let cool.

While the dipping sauce is cooling, roll flat with a rolling pin the four slices of bread. Use a large circle shaped cookie cutter to cut out each slice of bread into a circle. Mix the 3 sandwich mix ingredients together in a small bowl. Place a tablespoon full of mix into the center of each circle shaped piece of bread. Fold the bread in half so the sandwich is now a half circle. Crimp the edges of the sandwich together with your fingers so the mix will not come out. Then, while holding the center of the sandwich, pull the sides of the sandwich down so the edges touch each other, forming a fortune cookie shape.

Cut extra apple and celery slices to eat with the Chinese dipping sauce.

To make fortunes for your fortune cookies, use a clean plastic lid from a tub of butter, yogurt, or sour cream. Cut small plastic strips, then write your fortune on them with a permanent marker. Tuck the edge of the fortune into the edge of your cookies to make them real fortune cookie sandwiches.

Once the dipping sauce is cool, serve the crunchy Chinese cookie sandwiches with their fortunes, and apple and celery slices on a plate with a cup of dipping sauce. Dip the sandwiches and the apple and celery slices into the sauce, and you have a great after school snack that was fun to make and eat!