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Fairy Bread

Snack
⏱ 10 min
👥 Serves 8
Difficulty ⭐

Buttered white bread covered in colorful sprinkles — a staple of Australian children's birthday parties.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fairy bread is a simple treat of white bread spread with butter or margarine, covered with colorful sprinkles called 'hundreds and thousands,' and cut into triangles. It's an indispensable, nostalgic taste at children's birthday parties in Australia and New Zealand.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an Australian child's birthday party, colorful triangles of bread are laid out on a big platter as the children reach for them.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Bring the butter to room temperature to soften.

  2. Cut the crusts off the bread.

  3. Spread butter generously right to the edges on one side.

  4. Press the buttered side into a plate of sprinkles to coat completely.

  5. Cut into 4 triangles.

  6. Arrange on a plate.

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