Fairy Bread

Disclaimer: This post contains a recipe highlighting a different country or culture. While I strive for authenticity, I sometimes need to make adjustments to recipes due to ingredient availability.

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Today’s Eat the World challenge takes us to the land Down Under: Australia!

As I was researching recipes, I realized that Australia has very diverse cuisine. Many of the recipes were reminiscent of Britain and other countries (which makes a lot of sense given Australia’s colonization history).

Several of the foods that caught my fancy seemed a bit on the heavy side, using ingredients like puff pastry, and while it sounds delicious, my post-holiday waistband is trying to avoid heavy foods right now.

Instead I settled on an Americanized version of a children’s favorite: Fairy Bread! From what I’ve read, Fairy Bread is traditionally store bought white bread (the cheap stuff), a thick smear of butter (or margarine) and hundreds and thousands (sprinkles).

I ended up using homemade bread (because my family is bread snobs and only grudgingly eat anything else), honey cinnamon butter (based off our favorite from Texas Roadhouse to give the treat a more dessert-like feel), and nonpareils sprinkles (the closest I can find to the Australian hundreds and thousands).

This was a fun and easy treat - I also added a little twist to make these perfect for Valentines day with my little heart cookie cutter!

Check out all the wonderful Australian dishes prepared by fellow Eat the World members and share with #eattheworld. Click here to find out how to join and have fun exploring a country a month in the kitchen with us!

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Fairy Bread

Adapted from This Silly Girl’s Kitchen

Cinnamon Honey Butter

¼ cup butter, softened

2 tablespoons honey

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

Sliced Soft & Chewy Italian Bread, crusts removed

Cinnamon Honey Butter

Sprinkles (nonpareils, hundreds and thousands)

To make the butter, beat together all ingredients until smooth and combined.

Cut the bread into triangles. Spread with butter and top with sprinkles.

If desired, top with a second piece of bread with a heart shape cut out - or - place a cookie cutter and fill with red sanding sugar, then top the rest of the bread with sprinkles.

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