Fairy bread

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A plate of fairy bread at a children's party.

Fairy bread is sliced bread (usually white) spread with margarine or butter, and then sprinkled with Hundreds and Thousands.

Fairy bread is served at children's parties, almost exclusively in UK, Australia and New Zealand. Slices of the bread are often cut into triangles (or other shapes such as stars and people figures), and sometimes with the crusts removed.

A variation is to spread Nutella on the bread and then add sprinkles. Sometimes the Fairy Bread will be spread with icing or chocolate for varying occasions.

The origin of the term is not widely known, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verse, published in 1885.^[1]