We've learned about two desserts that appear to be uniquely Kiwi.
One is fairy bread. It's just white bread, spread with butter, and liberally covered with those tiny round multi-colored cake-decorating sprinkles, which are called "hundreds and thousands" (written as 100s and 1000s) here.
The other is pavlova. Basically just egg white and sugar meringue, they're sold in the grocery store as light, white, airy, crispy, crumbly dics. They're meant to be covered in whipped cream, fruit, syrup, chocolate shavings, etc., and sliced into wedges.
Now, I've never met a dessert I didn't like, but I haven't tried either of these and they don't really sound like they'd hit the spot for me. Apparently fairy bread is a favorite of kids, while pavlova is a more sophisticated treat.
1 comment:
I've never made this, but there are plenty of recipies for it. It is basically meringue (egg whites and sugar beaten to a frothy whipped white fluff.) You put little spoonfulls of the fluff on a baking sheet, and bake it on low say 250 degrees, for an hour or so, then turn off the oven and leave them to cool overnight. Pavlova!
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