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Happy Fluffernutter Day! Here are 9 Glorious Recipes to Celebrate Because Marshmallow Fluff Is Always a Good Idea

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who still eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches — and those who have seen the way of the fluffernutter. Don’t laugh. Fluffernutters are half peanut butter, half marshmallow, and entirely serious business — especially today, on the most hallowed of occasions: Fluffernutter Day.

If you are one of the sad souls who did not grow up with the king of all sandwiches, allow us to show you the light. Think of the fluffernutter as your childhood PB&J, except it calls for anything and everything your mother never let you put on it: Marshmallow fluff is a must, of course, but you can also add Nutella, bacon, and potato chips — whatever strikes your fancy. Then, once you’ve mastered the sandwich every which way, you dream big. Turn it into cookies and brownies, cupcakes and smoothies, because the fluffernutter is up for it all. Grab your peanut butter and that secret jar of fluff in the back of your pantry. This is going to be the best day ever.

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by Lisa Siva

Toasted Fluffernutters

What’s better than a perfect fluffernutter? Toasting said fluffernutter and dunking it in chocolate. Half Baked Harvest gets us.

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Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies

Once you’ve exhausted all sandwich possibilities, the next logical step is turning the fluffernutter into a sandwich cookie. Half Baked Harvest opts for classic chocolate chip, smothered in peanut butter and fluff.

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Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate chip not doing it for you? Double the peanut butter with PB cookies instead, à la Tummy Train.

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Fried Wontons

Fact: Everything is better deep fried — and that goes double for fluffernutters. Pass the Sushi ditches the bread for wonton wrappers.

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Nutella Phyllo Pockets

Think of these flaky, magical pockets as grown-up Pop Tarts. Cooking for Keeps stuffs them with peanut butter and mini marshmallows — plus a secret ingredient: Nutella.

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Swirl Brownies

Chocolate Moosey takes her brownies to the next level with a layer of fluffernutter swirl.

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Cupcakes

Fluffernutter. Cupcakes. Yes, these are real — and yes, they’re drizzled in melted peanut butter. Because, you know, plain old fluffernutters weren’t decadent enough. Thanks, How Sweet Eats!

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Banana Smoothies

Yes, you can drink your fluffernutter, too. Averie Cooks whips up a blend of peanut butter and marshmallows — with a banana thrown in for good measure.

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Bacon Fluffernutters

Bacon. Fluffernutter. Did you need another reason? Thanks, How Sweet Eats!

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