My college roommate, Lagena, sent me this, saying it had ME written all over it:
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| https://www.yellowblissroad.com/ layered-peeps/ |
She knows just how much I love Peeps!
I bought four different colors of Peeps (if you don't live in the US and haven't been exposed to them before, Peeps are an Easter delicacy made of marshmallow and coated - and I DO mean COATED - in colored sugar) and a box of Rice Krispies (that's a lie, I bought Great Value Crispy Rice cereal because it tastes the same and I'm cheap, especially after paying $1.68 for each box of Peeps when an equal amount of plain marshmallows is only $1.48, but I digress...).
Each layer had to be made separately, obviously, so I started with yellow and placed the yellow Peeps in a 4-cup measuring cup with a tablespoon of butter and put them in the microwave for 45 seconds.
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| Oh, man, they're looking at me... |
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| OH, THE HUMANITY!!! |
I gave them a stir and their little eyes separated and it was pretty disturbing, but the addition of
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| Hmm. Not very yellow. |
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| Layer one, smushed into the pan. |
I poured it into a foil-lined loaf pan that was coated with cooking spray and pressed it down with fingers that were coated with cooking spray. Then I washed the measuring cup and the spatula I used and started on layer #2:
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| This is such a brutal recipe. |
Then #3:
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| They're looking at me so trustingly... |
Then #4:
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| Picking the eyes off helped immensely. Why didn't I think of that earlier?! |
When it was cool (cool-ish - I was trying to hurry them because my son, the Med School student, was home for the weekend but was about to leave), I cut it into slices. It did not look as bright and pretty as the Pinterest pin....
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| Dull. Grayish. Maybe it was the eyes.... |
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| Yeah, a little on the gooey side. |
The Med School student got to be the first guinea pig. His conclusion: "It's peep-y, a little bit. I like them."
My husband's take: "They're very pretty. The taste difference isn't dramatic. If I were blindfolded, I wouldn't know the difference between these and regular ones. It's not like it's peanut butter or anything." (Note: he's always asking me to put peanut butter in the Rice Krispie treats, but I don't like peanut butter in them so I pretend I don't hear him.)
Conclusion: it was too painful watching the Peeps melting in the microwave, their little eyes floating away, the colors were not like the ones pictured in the pin, Peeps are WAY more expensive that a bag of mini marshmallows, and if I really wanted pastel striped Rice Krispie treats, I could have gotten the same effect just by putting food coloring in the marshmallow.
Still a win.
