Fairy bread is white sandwich bread spread with butter and covered in hundreds and thousands — the small, uniformly round sugar sprinkles specific to Australian and New Zealand confectionery culture, distinct from the longer rod-shaped sprinkles used in American baking. The bread is cut into triangles. That is the entire recipe, and deviation from it […]

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Vanilla slice is two sheets of puff pastry sandwiching a layer of thick set custard — firm enough to hold a clean edge when sliced, which is the technical benchmark a good vanilla slice is judged against. It is dusted with icing sugar or topped with passionfruit icing, cut into squares, and sold in nearly […]

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