Peanut Butter and Honey Toast

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Peanut Butter and Honey Toast, made pretty! A classic toast combination gets an extra bit of dazzle with this easy technique. Here's how to do it, plus useful tips and tricks. You only need 3 ingredients: bread, peanut butter, and honey.

I love making my parents breakfast. Sometimes it's the classic local breakfast. Sometimes it's jook. And oftentimes, it's toast. Avocado toast, honey-butter toast...and most recently, peanut butter and honey toast!

When I presented this to mom yesterday she was like, woooww how did you make this design on the toast?!

I told her it was super easy but she wasn't fully convinced until I showed her this morning. It really is that easy.

I love how one extra touch and twist can make a regular breakfast feel special. And thoughtful. Like someone cared when they made you breakfast. It's a nice feeling ^_^

Ingredients

Here's what you'll need:

Good bread
One slice per person. You can use any bread, we usually get bread from a local Japanese bakery like Epi-Ya, Okayama Kobo, or Brug Bakery. (The one pictured in this post is from Brug Bakery).

Peanut butter
Use regular peanut butter, salted or unsalted...whichever you have at home works best. There is no need for fancy peanut butter in this case. I find that regular supermarket peanut butter spreads most easily and smooth, and that's important for this toast.

Honey
Use any honey you have, but try to make sure it's in a squeezable jar. We use the ones from Manoa Honey. This will come in handy when we draw the lines of honey across the surface of the toast.

Maldon salt (Optional)
If you use unsalted peanut butter, I like to finish the toast with a little sprinkle of Maldon salt right before serving. Feel free to also use any other sea salt. This is optional, but tasty!

Instructions

Let's get toasting!

Toasting bread for Peanut Butter and Honey Toast.

Toast the bread.
Toast the bread till lightly golden (I like to toast it in the toaster oven for about 4 minutes at 400F).

Spreading peanut butter for Peanut Butter and Honey Toast.

Spread the peanut butter.
Spread it evenly over the surface of the bread. Be generous with the peanut butter! Note: make sure to spread the peanut butter while the bread is still warm so that it spreads more easily.

Adding honey for Peanut Butter and Honey Toast.

Add honey.
Now we add the honey! Make five horizontal lines going across the bread with the honey. Try make the lines as evenly spaced as you can.

I find that using a honey bear (versus spooning honey out of a big jar) makes it easier to "draw" the honey lines.

Draw perpendicular lines.
Use the tip of a clean knife (or chopstick) to draw a perpendicular line down the lines of honey...

...go slow and steady. And then repeat.

Start from one end of the toast and work your way to the other end.

I made 7 perpendicular lines for this piece of a toast. See how it forms that cool design? So neat!

Add Maldon salt (optional).
If you used unsalted peanut butter, feel free tp sprinkle a little Maldon salt (or sea salt) on top of the toast right before serving. Eat warm and enjoy ^_^

FAQ

Looking for more toast recipes?

Sweet Toast:
- Honey Butter Toast
- Black Sesame Toast

Savory Toast:
- Crab Toast
- Mentaiko Toast
- Shrimp Toast
- Natto and Egg Toast
- Natto Toast with Cheese and Cabbage

Peanut butter allergy?

No worries! Feel free to substitute peanut butter with any other nut butter. And you can also use other non-nut butters - I've made this with sunflower butter and granola butter.

Make sure your peanut butter is spreadable!

I love the natural and "fresh" peanut butters that you can grind on the spot at many supermarkets. But for this toast you want a soft and spreadable peanut butter, so there's no need to get anything fancy. Regular supermarket peanut butter works best for this.