Fairy Bread

Fairy Bread

A classic Australian children's party food: soft white bread spread with butter and covered in rainbow sprinkles, then cut into triangles.

Prep

5 min

Total

5 min

Serves

4

Difficulty

Easy

Recipe ingredients

• •8 slices white sandwich bread, fresh, soft, crusts left on
• •60 g (4 tbsp) unsalted butter, softened, or margarine
• •80 g (½ cup) hundreds and thousands sprinkles, the tiny rod-shaped rainbow sprinkles, not the round nonpareils

Steps

1. 1 Let the butter sit at room temperature for 15–20 minutes until soft and spreadable. Do not melt it; melted butter makes the bread soggy.
2. 2 Lay the bread slices flat on a clean work surface. Spread each slice evenly with a thin layer of softened butter, right to the edges. Use about 7–8 g (1½ tsp) per slice.
3. 3 Pour the hundreds and thousands into a shallow bowl or plate. Holding a buttered slice, press the buttered side gently into the sprinkles, or sprinkle them generously over the top. Tilt and shake the slice so the sprinkles cover the butter completely in a single dense layer. Shake off any excess back into the bowl.
4. 4 Repeat with the remaining slices, topping up the bowl of sprinkles as needed.
5. 5 Stack the slices lightly and cut each into four triangles (or cut each slice in half diagonally for larger triangles). Serve immediately, while the bread is soft and the sprinkles still crunch.