Fairy Bread: The Most Whimsical Way To Use Up Sprinkles - Chowhound

No one knows exactly when fairy bread became a thing, or who the genius was that first came up with the recipe. The earliest known mention of the treat came from an April 1929 issue of the Hobart Mercury newspaper, mentioning how the children at the Consumptive Sanitorium (a tuberculosis hospital) would celebrate parties: "With fairy bread and butter and 100's and 1,000's, and cakes, tarts, and home-made…