Now, I can deal with jelly beans, chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs - they are like the true Easter candy. I am NOT particularly fond of PEEPS, however. The sugar coated, yellow marshmallow chickens were not part of my youth, and they seem like some sort of alien food - all I have to do is look at them and my teeth start to hurt from the thought of all that sugar. But my hubby loves them, especially when they get a little old and chewy. No, PEEPS were not part of his youth, either. But nowadays he just loves the little critters. A couple of years ago a friend told me that you can "age" fresh PEEPS by putting them in the microwave and nuking them for 20 - 30 seconds. The first time we tried this we ended up laughing our butts off as we watched these critters blow up to 3 times their size as the marshmallow heated and made jokes about the PEEPS that Clayton.
So imagine my joy when I found another novel recipe using PEEPS on the Facebook page of my friend Tina. This is called a PEEPS Sunflower Cake, and is supposed to serve 12. But the recipe calls for 19 PEEPS, and how do you divide 19 PEEPS in 12 servings? You can find the recipe
here on the Taste of Home website.
I guess you could change the flower up and make it a dahlia or mum by adding a second row of PEEPS on top to make more "petals" . Then you could change the color of the frosting and the PEEPS as well, and use the pink or purple chickens. Or you could just forget about it and make an angel food cake with rainbow sprinkles in the batter - at least that looks like Easter.
Do any of you readers have a PEEPS recipe that you would like to share with the rest of us? Just click on "comments" below and share.
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