Soft white bread spread with sweet butter and topped with a generous amount of brightly colored sprinkles. Simple, fun, and brilliant. We know this is meant to be a treat for little fairy princesses, but we're pretty enchanted ourselves!
We spotted this idea for fairy bread on CRAFT, who in turn picked it up from the Australian blog "I Ate Brisbane." We'd never heard of this particular delicacy before, but apparently it's a well-known and much-loved snack for children's birthday parties in Australia.
We dug a little deeper and found some more interesting facts about fairy bread!
• It inspired (or perhaps was inspired by) a Robert Louis Stevenson poem by the same name. Read it for yourself over here!
• Fairy bread has such a following that it even has its own Facebook page. The page currently has 153,925 fans! You can become the next one: Fans of Fairy Bread!
• There are very specific ways to make fairy bread. Here's the Wikihow page to guide you through each step.
• Or you can follow I Ate Brisbane's excellent instructions on her blog! I Ate Brisbane: Fairy Bread (via CRAFT magazine).
Do you love fairy bread? Tell us how you make it!
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I love fairy bread! Mum's Australian, but I grew up in America and all the other little kids thought it was the coolest thing ever. My sister and I still occasionally make a piece for ourselves. If it sits out for a bit (the half hour or so before it gets eaten) the colors bleed a bit and it looks even better.
beats funfetti any day.
Fairy bread is my favourite kids party food, even as an adult I still love it! Followed closely by chocolate crackles! See their recipe here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_crackles
Love it! Just great. One of those fabulous things that you grow up with and then are reminded of why it was so good. And it hasn't yet acquired the ubiquity of cupcakes... maybe it could be the next big thing?
I've never understood the appeal of these kind of sprinkles (and I am a sugar fiend)--the way they kind of get stuck in between your teeth and are too small to really chew easily. Bleah.
Goes great with unicorn meat.
It doesn't sound like something I'd care for but I bet my daughter would love this. How fun!
@ Hiphopopotamus: Agreed! the sprinkles of the bread and the high concentration of sparkles in canned unicorn meat would be perfect ;)
I love sprinkles but this is just ridiculous.
Growing up, my mom would make it out of the regular long sprinkles, not the round ones.
White bread, lots of butter, and chocolate sprinkles are the best!
I think I'd probably prefer a piece of toast with butter and Dutch hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles) over fairy bread. Mmm, hagelslag.
Onesnowyowl, that's what it reminded me of. I was introduced to hagelslag a few years ago and thought it was so naughty and good.
I guess the closest thing we have in America are sugar sandwiches.
I ate a sugar sandwich last night! White bread, butter, tablespoon of sugar. Don't tell ;-)
Gleeps! It's a donut for ascetics.
So cute!
Sorry, guys, the round sprinkles (hundreds and thousands) are mandatory. Can't go the flat ones.
What's awesome about fairy bread is when you make it for adults- they go nuts!
I don't think there's a single person who grew up in NZ who hasn't eaten fairy bread.
Buh? Fairy Bread is an antipodean thing? Like... really... Serious? But but but... Fairy Bread!
I was on a camp this weekend with 200 18-->26 year olds. The most popular snack served with the entertainment was Fairy Bread.
As for little princesses? Kids don't appreciate Fairy Bread, adults appreciate Fairy Bread.
As an Australian I am very familiar with the wonders of fairy bread! I have eaten fairy bread since I was a child. It has become essential on the menu at my daughter's birthday party every year and often throughout the year for morning tea with little friends or just because! I must say whenever I make it I have to eat a piece or several myself!
Mmmm, and most delicious if you cut the crusts off the bread. You can also cut shapes with cookie-cutters - we have heart-shaped fairy bread at all our birthday parties. There's always one kid who stands by the plate and methodically chomps their way through the whole lot!
Best food ever, I am Australian currently in the UK and will be making this for a friends party. And @ms_flea_kiedis I agree, round ones are mandtory. The long ones get soft from the butter.
there wasn't a birthday party (for kids) that we went to in perth that didn't have these !! and kids DO love them, a LOT.