aka: Apple-Dapple Crunch Wrap Supremes

~ These crunchy Peanut Butter Sandwich Wraps come together in just moments and are completely adaptable – no need to measure exact amounts! Perfect for on-the-go meals and make-ahead lunches, they’re full of nutrient-rich fruits, whole grains and lots of protein. Change up your PB&J routine with this delicious combination of sweet, crunchy, chewy and creamy ingredients that your whole family will love! ~

This Recipe Is:   •  Ready in 30 Minutes or Less  •  Make Ahead  •  Vegetarian  •

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These sandwich wraps are a true family favorite! Amy happily packs one in her lunch practically every day … and then sometimes has one for an afternoon snack, too. Not kidding – total fave!

Even though it’s such a no-brainer, simple idea, I’m ridiculously excited to share something that we love so much with all of you – just in case you need a little shake-up for your same-old-same-old PB&J.

Plus, my husband bugs me endlessly about why I haven’t posted this recipe yet. (Ok, buddy – here ya go! I’m also ridiculously excited that you can now move on to bugging me about something else! Ahem … xoxo …)

But this recipe really is so simple, so flexible, that I thought there just wasn’t all that much to say about it.

Slap some deliciously nutritious ingredients inside a Flatout flatbread, roll up, and enjoy!

That simple!

Oh sure, I could go on and on, detailing how the juicy apple marries perfectly with the chewy, tart cranberries, the creamy peanut butter, and the crunchy bits of granola. All true!

And I could mention the oodles of nutrition packed in there: vitamins and fiber and from various fruits, protein from the peanut butter, whole grain goodness from the granola … not to mention all the nutrition in the Flatout itself, which is magically loaded of fiber-filled whole grains, and a surprising amount protein.

Oh – and then I could dive into the vast array of options …

• Like, how you could make your sandwich wraps with all dried cranberries, or alllll raisins … or (gettin’ crazy here …) swap in some other dried fruits like chopped dates or blueberries. Whoa!

• And you don’t even have to use good ol’ peanut butter. Not with the vast array of nut butters on every supermarket shelf. Plus, if allergies are a problem, you can go for Sun Butter or nut-free Wow Butter.

• Or, hey – want more apples? Ok! Pile ’em on!

• How about trying pears instead? Ok by me! Or fresh strawberries (like in our Peanut Butter Tortilla “Quesdaillas”). Yum yum yum!

You get the idea. It’s your wrap … I’m not making the rules!

Just throw it all together!

I’d truly never even measured the ingredients for these sandwich wraps, until I needed to create a standard recipe to share with you as a starting point for your own creations. Amy helped me test a couple versions, so we could offer a solid guideline to help you begin.

But really – there’s no need for precision with this one.

You’ve gotta love recipes that don’t require a measuring cup … just go for it, friends!

But, seriously … far, far beyond ingredients and nutrition and all the obvious recipe options, here’s what I really want to talk about:

The name.

Not the “Granola Crunch Apple-Peanut Butter Sandwich Wraps” name. The unofficial one: Apple-Dapple Crunch Wrap Supreme. That’s what we actually call it in our house!

Although, at our house, most things go by entirely made-up, shorthand names.

Like our dishwasher. Who has time for all three syllables in today’s busy world? We’ve whacked that mouthful right down to six letters: we call it the dee-dub. Huh? I know. You’re not the only one who’s been confused by that. But stick with me: dee-dub. As in D-W (you know … Dish Washer). But again, saying “D-double-ewe” is a mouthful. So … dee-dub! We put our dishes in the dee-dub.

Makes so much sense now, doesn’t it?

Similarly, take the word minivan, which we say sooooooo very frequently in our little carpooling world.

Again, three whopping syllables.

When you’re frantically searching for lost keys, scrabbling for cleats, and wondering where you left your cell phone, three syllables is two syllables too many. Problem solved: we generally just call it the “min.”

Our vocabulary is peppered with lots of other made-up words, too.

I married into the term “flug” which Scott’s family uses to refer to any stray bit of fuzz or lint. Because when you desperately need to tell your friend that she’s got a “small speck of lint” on her sweater, it’s just so much faster to point and yell, “Flug!”

And of course, you THK regulars know that we absolutely jump at the chance to make up new holidays and christen them with whimsical (ahem … insane) names.

My family can’t possibly be bothered with how long it takes to say that we’re having our “Annual Fall Get-Together in Combined Celebration of Halloween and Thanksgiving.” Too exhausting. We just have “Thanks-O-Weenie”! Ditto for our “Spring Reunion That Falls Between St. Patrick’s Day and Easter.” That, of course, would be “St. Peaster’s Day”!

So, anywho …

… that brings us to these sandwich wraps. And their name.

I just made them up one day, off the cuff – a day that I actually don’t have documented in my recipe notebooks and that I no longer specifically remember.

But when you plunk a new recipe creation in front of someone, it’s always helpful if that recipe has a catchy name. Something so catchy that your diner can’t help but be instantly charmed and intrigued.

And so, somehow, these were dubbed Apple Dapple Crunch Wrap Supremes.

My family thought I was ridiculous (I am) and they giggled at me a lot (I didn’t care). But they also loooooved them.

I think your family will, too!

Oh – and if you find yourself short on time as you finish loading the “dee-dub” and dash for your “min” just in time for the afternoon’s carpool duty: it’s totally ok to cut the name right down, to just thrust four-syllables of “Apple-Dapple” into your hungry children’s hands.

Because, no matter what you call these, they’ll be a total smash hit!

How Much of a Hit, You Ask?!? (Update September 2017)

Well, these sandwich wraps have caught on like wildfire on Pinterest, and are consistently our most repinned recipe, every single month! They’re well on their way to becoming our most popular recipe ever.

Funny that something so simple is all it takes to make people happy (definitely – note to self).

But what’s really awesome is that these were recently featured in Flatout’s national video campaign for #FlatoutLove. The video is absolutely darling, through and through – with so many inspiring recipe ideas (oh my gosh – don’t miss the adorable birthday cake and the chocolate-dipped hearts!).

Check it out:

And then go grab some more Flatouts to try all these great new ideas! Head over to the handy Store Locator if you’re having trouble finding Flatouts at your local store.

But seriously … the very first thing you make with your new stash of Flatouts should be a couple of Apple Dapples. Maybe that birthday cake as a close second, though! 😉

Inspiration: When I started making this recipe for my family, I didn’t work from any other recipe or cookbook. Just made it up. But then, as I was testing it to standardize everything for you and I began thinking about what I wanted to tell you in this post, I thought I vaguely remembered that the idea for adding crunchy stuff – like seeds and granola – to peanut butter sandwiches had definitely come from somewhere, years ago. Sure enough – I dug back through a bunch of my kiddos’ old cookbooks, and found a “PB and a Wrap” recipe and even a “Fruit and Peanutty Pockets” recipe that I know we riffed on a lot when my kids were younger. So, I’d be absolutely remiss if I didn’t give them a nod here, as I’m sure they were my inspiration, hidden somewhere back in my memory. That “Fruit and Peanutty Pockets” recipe was also part of the initial springboard for our Strawberry-Peanut Butter Quesadillas. You can find both those original recipes in the Better Homes and Gardens book Snack Attack: Return of the Munchies. It’s lots of fun! We have shelves full of children’s cookbooks, but this was always one of my kids’ favorites.