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Recipe for Peanut Butter Burritos 🥜🌯

I know, they look messy. But if you’re going to have some kiddos around for the holiday season, I highly recommend this fun recipe-and-activity meal idea for your table. The kids have fun while they make the food, and then they get to eat their creations. 😋

Recipe Ingredients…

• Large flour tortillas
• Creamy peanut butter
• Toppings:

Any variety of toppings you can think of that are small enough to stick to the peanut butter and stay in place when you roll up the tortillas. Some ideas include mini marshmallows, candy coated chocolates, chopped up cookies, chopped peanuts, chopped cranberries, chopped dates, diced apples, shredded coconut, raisins, other dried fruit pieces, and, of course—lots of sprinkles! 🍩✨

Recipe Instructions:

• Spread the creamy peanut butter to cover most of the tortilla.
• Give the “designers”  a selection of toppings in bowls and let them get as creative as they like.
• Consider themes if you like, so tell them to make Christmas trees or give them red and green toppings and sprinkles.
• Don’t let them put so many toppings that they can’t stick to the peanut butter coating.
• Syrup or honey is not recommended unless you’re going to cut the finished product in bite-sized pieces.
• Roll up the decorated tortilla with a secure fold at the bottom to hold all the goodies inside.
• Enjoy watching them eat, or join in the eating, of these yummy art projects.
• Note: Take a lot more pictures than I did. 📸

It’s in the afterthoughts that you realize things like, Why didn’t I take more pictures? But the biggest after-the-fact realization I got from this was when one of our nephews decided he wanted honey on his. He was older and making it for himself as a meal, not part of a group project, so he got the honey out of the cupboard and added far more than he realized. When he got it rolled up, he started eating it as he walked across the kitchen dripping a long trail of honey behind him. When I asked if he was going to clean it up, he answered, “Why? The burrito did it!”

The Burrito Did It!

So I’m going away from the recipe stuff now to share this statement because it has become a frequently-used statement in our lives. When our nephew said it, I think he truly meant it because it took a lot of explaining for him to understand his own part in helping the burrito, and therefore making himself responsible to clean up. But we hear people pass the blame on so many things these days, and that’s when hubby and I turn to each other and say, (I’m sure you know what), The burrito did it.

A lack of personal responsibility led to sticky honey all over the floor. That same lack would’ve let it stay without authority that demanded the party who did it clean up after himself instead of creating a “cleanup on aisle 2” scenario where someone else is called in to take care of the mess.

See, he still got to enjoy his peanut butter and honey burrito. He just had to take the time to do his part. And the next time he made that treat, I’d imagine he was more careful. If not, maybe he got a house full of ants.

It works the same for all of us. Blaming someone or something else for our own behaviors not only leaves others to do what we should do ourselves, but can lead to extended problems with “ants” in our future. If you ever forget that, just imagine the scenario I’ve shared and say, “The burrito did it,” and you’ll realize the silliness of passing blame. 🤪🤡

Just FYI, Proverbs 19:3 actually addresses this well.

“[3] A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the Lord.”

— Proverbs 19:3 BSB

And if you make any fun creations, please come back and tell me about them in the comments. Or… Tell me your own “burrito did it” stories. 🤭

November 12, 2026 - Posted by Crystal A Murray (aka CrystalWriter) | Bible Scripture Verses, Collaged, Creativity, Food/Restaurants/Eating, Life Lessons and Morals, Photo Studio Pro app, Recipes, Slice of Life | Bible, creative fun, kid's recipe, peanut butter, peanut butter burrito, playing with food, recipe