Australia’s Best Recipes recently featured a fairy-bread version of the butterboard trend. The board was smeared in butter and covered with thousands of sprinkles. It was ICONIC.
Many people expressed their disapproval of the butter/sprinkles proportion in the video.
What is the magic fairybread formula?
The video caused a lot of debate at the Taste office. What is the best way of making fairy bread? So we asked our food experts to take to the Taste Test Kitchen to figure out the ideal bread-to-butter-to-sprinkles ratio. After hundreds of thousands, 100s, and 1,000s of trials and errors, we believe that our food director, Amira George, has found the perfect ratio.
Amira says that although some people believe that fairy bread is best made with equal amounts of butter and sprinkles, Amira thinks the ideal ratio is 3:2. That’s three sprinkles for every two butter. For two slices of toast, use one tablespoon of butter and 1.5 tablespoons (or an eighth cup) of 100s & 1000s. Do you get lost in all the numbers? Below is the full recipe!
How To Make Perfect Fairy Bread
Ingredients
Two slices of soft white bread
One tbsp softened butter.
The 1/8 cup is available in hundreds of thousands.
Method
Butter your bread evenly, but do not butter the crusts.
Spread the hundreds and thousands evenly over the butter.
Serve your bread with the crusts still on.
OR… try this cool, mess-free hack instead.
The Ultimate Fairy Bread Hack
When you try to top off your fairy bread, do you find yourself spilling sprinkles on the floor? No more. Australia’s Best Recipes (they are fast becoming Australian experts in fairy-bread production) The recipe is a great example of how to use sprinkles in a way that’s neat and complete without wasting them or creating a mess.
You pour your sprinkles (buttered-side down) into a container and then dip the bread into them. It’s easy to get an even, beautiful coating without any mess. Click here to watch:
Can fairy bread be made a day in advance?
This is a no-no. This will cause the bread to be hard, and the color from the 100s and 1,000s will likely run into your butter. It only takes a few minutes to make fairybread, so it’s easy to do at the last moment.
What is fairy bread made from?
Fairy bread’s base is always white, soft sliced bread. Some people use margarine, while others prefer butter. We are #teambutter. Then, sprinkle it with 100s and 1,000s (some like strands of sprinkles, but we believe the ball variety to be most authentic). Please don’t copy what our digital director Laura did.
Why is it called fairy bread?
According to reports, fairy bread is a wafer-thin crisp toast that was originally served with soup. It was first mentioned in the 1920s as a kid’s party treat by a Hobart paper. The rest is history. The name is most likely a result of the colorful appearance of the bread, but some claim it comes from Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem Fairy Bread. Stevenson describes children eating fairybread while listening to fairytales.
Why is fairy bread popular in Australia?
Since 1929, when it was first published in a Tasmanian paper, fairy bread has become the most popular kids’ party food in Australia and New Zealand. The recipe is easy; it doesn’t take long to prepare, and it only takes three ingredients. It always leaves children in awe.
Excitement.
Fairy Bread Day
It’s back in 2023. This event, which will take place on 24 November of this year, encourages Aussies (and other countries) to collect money in the hundreds and thousands for ReachOut.
