Savory sandwiches may always be the popular type of sandwich. But the sweet sandwiches have a place in the culinary use of sandwiches. Neither a dessert nor a main course, sweet sandwiches offer an extra special meal especially to children and lovers of jellies, preserves, marmalades, peanut butters, nut butters, butter, honey, and most likely anything edible and sweet that you could spread on bread.
We could have them for breakfast or tuck them in our kids’ lunchboxes so that they will be reminded of home. The usual recipe is to get two pieces of sliced white loaf bread then spread them with peanut butter, butter or fruit preserves. One can also be creative and fill the bread with two kinds of spread, as in peanut butter and jelly or butter and honey. No other layer is needed unlike savory sandwiches which has to have mayonnaise, lettuce, and other garnishes.
Sweet sandwiches are nothing new, in fact, cookbooks from as far back as early 1900s already proffer these sweet delights. Examples from these old cookbooks include caramel sandwiches, cherry sandwiches, nut and apple sandwiches, and honey sandwiches.
So aside from the usual peanut butter and fruit preserves, there are other variations that can produce a sweet sandwich. Other sandwich recipes in the old cookbooks use crackers, cake slices and pastry in place of the bread. an interesting deviation also is the marshmallow which is heated and then pressed between two ginger snaps or other cookie.
You can serve the sweet sandwiches as is, grill them or chill them—as in the case of ice cream sandwiches and cookie sandwiches. Ice cream sandwiches are usually thought of as simply ice cream in between two pairs of cookies. But there are ice cream sandwiches made from simple loaf breads to colorful party breads wrapped around the ice cream.
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