Peeps Flambe w/photos
Hey everyone, it's Peeps season! Yes, it's that time of year again when the magical sugary marshmallow creatures with the amazing shelf life return in Easter-themed shapes.
Although they are "interesting" on their own, Peeps also make for excellent FLAMBE! Imagine if a marshmallow married a creme brulee. And then they had babies. It's super delicious... like a roasted marshmallow that has a crunchy crystallized sugar crust on the outside, warm and gooey on the inside. It's peep-a-licious.
I like to make mine by putting them on a skewer and roasting them with my Bernzomatic butane torch. Roast all around for a minute or so, then let it cool a little bit. The outer sugar shell will crystallize and harden, but it'll still be warm on the inside.
You can also get the same effect by roasting them over a fire (the more kid-friendly version)
Link: http://colleencuisine.blogspot.com/2006/03/peeps-flambe.html
Colleen
Mar 15, 2006 01:59AM
Sounds quite delicious. I loved the photo series.
Try out Peep Jousting some time. Arm a couple Peeps with toothpicks, set them a few inches apart in the microwave, and turn it on. The one that sticks the other with its toothpick first is the winner.
Link: http://thecosmicjester.blogspot.com
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My brother and his kids LOVE LOVE LOVE peeps. Now they are available for almost every holiday, so they can get their peep fix throughout the year- although Easter is the biggest seasson. They love to put them in the microwave and let them cook until just before the look like they will explode. Doesn't do much for m e, but he and his family are crazy about them.
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I've roasted them over the stove flame. This too works well.
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While nowadays Peeps are out for all the holidays, I'm a traditionalist. I only go for The Original Easter Peeps. I purchase them in late winter as soon as the creatures become available. Then I puncture their plastic wrapper with a fork several times to allow them to breathe and put them away in a cool dark place to hibernate. By Easter they have aged and are properly stale for maximum enjoyment. This year much to my surprise I found some poor lost Peeps from last year hiding in the back of the Peep hibernatory closet. I placed their younger brethren with them and with such long aging I wonder how they will be?
Fresh Peeps are also obtained a week or two before Easter so on that morning my nieces and nephew can join me for the annual rites of Jelly Belly and Cadbury Egg hunts and the highly looked forward to Peep battles, experiments, and ancillary gustatory revelry. This way I can teach them the proper meaning of Peepery on Easter (or as the have come to call it in my secular presence, Feaster.)
For the adults this year I made a small amount of Peep liqueur a few weeks ago, so it will have time to mellow properly for the joyful day. Hopefully this will put my sister and her hubby into the proper frame of mind for the unholy glee of their offsprings enjoyment of the pagan rites of Peepery.
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Another fun Peeps activity is to make waffles and stick a bunny shaped one in the middle of the batter on the NON-STICK grill. The peep will melt away, leaving a bunny-shaped sugar-coated hole.
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Lots of other really fun stuff you can do with Peeps here...
Link: http://www.peepresearch.org/
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Yep, discovered the joy of Peeps on a stick over an open fire a couple of years ago and have tried to spread the word ever since. The main advantages over a regular marshmallow is that they stay on the stick better, the sugar keeps the marshmallow interior from burning easily so you can get a thorough melting inside and the different shapes puff up in hilarious ways while cooking. If you thought kids loved roasting marshmallows over a campfire, try peeps for hours of amusement.
I haven't done it yet, but I am sure peeps would work better for S'mores because they do retain more heat inside and would melt the chocolate much better and add the extra crunch of the carmelized sugar. Plus you get to bite the ears off the rabbit shaped ones. For some reason the ears of anything always taste better, like the ears on gummy bears and animal crackers. Go figure.
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I am scared and terribly intrigued at the same time!
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I urge caution in roasting peeps over an open flame, on the stove or otherwise. A couple of years ago, my SO got a nasty burn on his hand from melted He now has a serious peep aversion.
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Sorry for your SO. I have always thought roasted marshmallows flaming with that strange redish/blueish color they get in full blaze were an awfully dangerous thing to give to kids on a stick. Millions of burned fingers and tongues and we still stick at least one bag of these benign looking little white pillows in our camping supplies. Must be a marshmallow conspiracy of some kind.
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Years ago when I lived in Maryland (home of Peeps), I would roast them over an open fire. I told my friends, and they shied away from me as if I was some sick and twisted animal torture pervert. Go figure.
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i've done the microwave battles; there are giant peeps now
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Do they actually explode in the mocrowave? My brother and his family love Peeps, and on Easter, he teaches all the kids how to cook in the microwave. He always turns the microwave off as they expand, so I am not sure what happens if you leave them in!
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it a sugary death to the finish with toothpicks; not for the very young
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Thanks- Maybe that is why my brother stops before the massacre begins- too many little ones in the area:}
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