When I was in grade 6 I had two teachers. For the first half of the year was Mr Rutherford from Australia. The second half was the usual school teacher Mr Ferguson. You see, the two did a teacher exchange where they swapped homes and classrooms for a calendar year. As a student, it was a really cool experience. But there are three things I remember most from that year:
1) Mr Ferguson teaching us to “K.I.S.S.” our writing – Keep It Simple Stupid. 20 years later and I’m now teaching this nugget of wisdom to my students.
2) Our aboriginal dot painting project
3) Fairy bread
Oh yes, fairy bread. The name alone got me incredibly excited. I mean everyone loves bread, and who doesn’t love fairy’s? Put ’em together and it’s perfection. But when I learned what fairy bread was made of – white bread, butter, and sprinkles (or as the Aussie’s call ’em, hundreds and thousands), my 11 year old mind was blown. The day we got to make our own in class was probably the best of the year.
Yep, fairy bread is insanely easy to make. And I’ll be honest, while sixth grade Tan was all over this treat like a hot fudge sundae, adult Tanya finds it a little too sweet to handle. But I couldn’t help share because just look at it! It’s adorable! And it would make a really cute snack at a festive party don’t you think? Just maybe limit it to one triangle per kid to avoid the ultimate sugar rush. Now let’s make some!
You’ll need:
- White bread with the crusts cut off
- Butter or margarine. I used coconut butter though because I wanted the coconut flavour and I wanted the bread to stay white opposed to turning yellow
- Sprinkles – I used the rod shaped kind because that’s what I remembered from grade 6. My Aussie friend told me however that, while it may be a regional difference, she uses round sprinkles.
Simply spread a generous amount of butter on each slice.
Pour sprinkles onto a plate, then place the bread butter side down onto the sprinkles. Gently press down to adhere the sprinkles onto the bread.
Cut the square diagonally to create triangle wedges.
Serve and enjoy!
Anything with this many sprinkles HAS to be great! Thanks for sharing such a fun memory too 🙂
Truth! Sprinkles=win
WHUT. I have never heard of this concoction. Butter and sprinkles? I must try.
You have an excellent memory, Tan. I hardly remember anything from 6th grade!
Hah pretty well everything I remember I wrote in this post!
This is such a cute idea, and I had NO idea Aussie’s called them hundreds and thousands!
Cute name isn’t it? Though it’s a bit of a mouthful to say allt he time
I can’t imagine what these must taste like (butter and sprinkles?) but they’re so pretty that I have to try them!
it definitely seems like an odd combination
I feel like I am seriously missing out! I have never heard of this magical snack and I’m starting to think I need to grab some sprinkles and try this right now!
Definitely do it! I want to try again the proper way – with round sprinkles. Someone mentions later that they made it with nutella. That would be so dangerous!
I had no idea what this post was going to be about but YES. Give me all the fairy bread please 🙂
Hah isn’t it the best name?
We love sprinkles! Great pics, Tan!
Sprinkles are the best!
AW this looks SO yummy! This was one of those treats that I never even knew existed as a child because my parents were health nuts. So making this for my little girl!
lol unless you’re from Australia no one knows about this so you’re safe 😉
Omg, my 6 year old niece would be all over this! Thanks for the idea!
Heh, just make sure not to give it to her before bedtime otherwise the sugar will never let her sleep 😉
My kids always loved fairy bread at their parties, sometimes I would make it with nutella instead of butter
Ohhh that would be GOOD
I was talking with my sister about fairy bread just the other day! It’s just so fun and colourful! I’m from England and we learnt about it from an Australian radio show that we love.
How fun! Have you made it before?
There are huge regional variations in Australia when it comes to what we call our food, but in Melbourne, the sprinkles you’ve used are called sprinkles, and the round ones are called hundreds-and-thousands! I have NO idea why there’s a distinction between them. Aren’t they both just called sprinkles everywhere else?
Oh really? That’s interesting! Yep we definitely just call ’em all sprinkles up here