Plague-themed Peeps, candy molds, and chocolates: they're perfect for Passover!
The ten Passover Plagues in Exodus didn't involve much sugar or butter. If only Moses delivered G-d's demands in candy form, then those gnats and ticks could have been chocolate, not infectious insects! With Passover only three weeks away, here's a few candy homages to the anniversary of Egyptian calamities. Mmm, who wants a sugar high from boils and murrain?
Are you still left with too much leftover Easter candy? Let Jesse Oleson help you breathe new life into your Peeps, jelly beans, and chocolate eggs with her suggestions for utilizing Easter candy leftovers. How about a leftover Easter trifle, or s'mores made out of Peeps? You can also turn a boring bowl of cereal into one dotted with Easter candies. Check out all the sugar-laden suggestions at Cakespy.
Previously
Peep Inside a Chocolate Egg: The Must-Have Easter Candy
Make Your Own Cadbury Creme Egg Ice Cream
Photo of the Day: Irish Soda Bread for St. Patrick's Day
Move Over, Rice Krispies: Cereal Treats Smackdown
The Washington Post hosted a contest for Peeps dioramas and the results are in. Called Peeps Show, the contest inspired more than 800 entries, some riffing on pop culture, others on current and past events. My favorite was the one at right, which might be fall into the category of "suicide food," since the bunnies are toasting marshmallows 'round the campfire here. Other dioramas in the contest include a reenactment of former D.C. mayor Marion Barry's arrest, a scene from Hugh Hefpeep's mansion, and one titled "The Lion Peeps Tonight."
Need a last-minute greeting card for Easter? Cybele made some great Peeps-inspired Easter Island postcards for your convenience. And amusement. If only it were real...
Transform your marshmallow Peeps into classy (or classier) treats by coating them in salted caramel and dipping them in melted dark chocolate. Roopa has the recipe for these highbrow peeps at her blog, Raspberry Eggplant.
I'd say the only downside to coating the Peeps in caramel and chocolate is that they ultimately look more like like chocolate lumps than vaguely chick-shaped marshmallows, but the loss of form is worth the 500% increase in deliciousness.
For Raaven O'Quinn, Peeps aren't just pastel-colored marshmallow blobs, they're what poems are made of. About five years ago, O'Quinn fused two wonderful things, Peeps and haikus, to create PeepHaiku.com. The site allows any Peeps poet to upload 5-7-5 metered dedications to those brown, beady eyes.
In the spirit of prime Peeps season, we electronically sat down with O'Quinn to find out why the fat-free, meatless chicks are just so darn special and have spawned other fetishistic side projects such as this dot-org Peeps Research site or Washington Post's Peep Diorama contest. (The 2008 winners will be announced in Sunday's issue).
Candyblog awards the Easter candy, Marshmallow Peeps inside a Milk Chocolate Egg, a 5 out of 10, or "Pleasant" on a scale of "Inedible" to "Superb." Guess what it's made of? Just guess!
So yes, this is where Peeps come from—within the thick concave walls of "passable" milk chocolate. Some of Candyblog's commenters pointed out that with some graham crackers and a source of heat, this candy could double as filling for s'mores. Granted, the Peep would die in the process, but it all ends up in the same place anyway.
Previously: DIY Peeps, WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest, Pimp Your Peeps, Ten Plagues of Peeps.
Okay, so it's a few days late for Passover, and I apologize for that profusely, but these dioramas of Peeps reenacting the Ten Plagues of Egypt are hilarious nonetheless. [via Dooce]
Blogger and freelance writer Andrea Tomkins is organizing the Peep-Tastic Photo Challenge:
Buy Peeps. Pose them. Freeze them. Melt them. Pile them in your mouth. Take photos. Lots of photos. Be creative! Post the best photos on your blog. Make sure you let us know in the comments below. If you can, post them in your Flickr with the tag “fishbowlpeeps,” that way we can look at them all as a group.
Forget about buying Peeps this Easter and make your own super cute pastel-colored marshmallows! Williams-Sonoma will sell you a kit with everything you need: "marshmallow mix, duck and bunny molds, pastry bags for piping the prepared marshmallow into molds, as well as the purple, pink and yellow sanding sugars and black eyes you’ll need for decorating your creations. You can also cut the marshmallow into shapes using the included butterfly, bunny and chick cookie cutters." $24.50 for the kit, which is available online/catalog only, not in stores.
[via Popgadget]
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