Let Them Eat Peeps!

Yes it's time for food for the masses! It's easter time again, my favorite holiday, when the grocery store isles are filled to overflowing with the world's greatest mass-produced bounty of holiday junk foods. Heaping mounds of pink and cream candy eggs, luscious chocolate bunnies lounging among perfectly shaped perky jellybeans, blades of plastic green easter grass stuck to those sweet gooey Cadburys cream eggs.
Yes, i know, in public we turn up our noses and drop our voices an octave and with a slight euro accent say "My heavens! That stuff is positively disgusting.." But then who gets up before the kids and snatches a cream egg out of the basket, nervously filling in the depression with jellybeans and fluffing up the easter grass, as if it were never there? And those of you without kids‹pretending you have them as the checker beeps three peanut butter eggs you roll your eyes and say: "those kids, they just fight over those! i can't imagine why..."
Well, cower in the shadows no more citizen! I am here to tell you that easter candy is haute cuisine! And among easter candy there is but one king of the genre. And that is, yes you know it, Marshmallow Peeps! The indestructible superpower of colorful confections! Pink, yellow, white, blue, purple, any color'l do...PEEPS!

This easter don't leave these delicious puffs of delight off the menu. One of their strongest suits is as a decoration or garnish.

INGREDIENTS:

1 cake of your choice (i will give one of mine but any cake will do)

frosting

many boxes of marshmallow peeps, any color.


step 1: bake your cake. (you can stack your cakes for a towering and festive look, or do a single layer for an elegant approach.)

step 2: frost your cake. (this is important since the peeps need the frosting to hold them on.) Carefully consider the color of your frosting, if you are using blue peeps perhaps choose a white or speckled frosting. Chocolate frosting creates contrast but unless you are very careful it can make the peeps look very dirty.

step 3: Apply peeps to frosting! They can be in ordered rows, exciting patterns or hap hazardly placed! it doesn't matter because peeps rule! step 4: Garnish with pansies, wheat grass, or anything else.

enjoy!

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Here is a cake recipe i like: double chocolate kahlua cake (taken from a family friend but never wrote it down so probably degenerated but still good)

Take a box of chocolate cake mix with pudding in the mix.
Mix as directed on box only use 3 eggs.
Add 1 pint of sour cream.
add 1/3 cup kahlua
add 1 tsp vanilla
add one 12oz package chocolate chips.

mix but leave batter chunky.
bake a long time, checking with a toothpick (45-50?)

yes it sounds trashy but it is very very good.

Use a frosting recipe you like-preferably dark chocolate.

THE END

happy hopping everyone!