A New Season Sees New Horizons For Peeps

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A New SeasonSees New Horizons For Peeps SeiSY Tc cad (NAPSA)—It’s a small world after all and one of its ambassadors may be a favorite Easter confection. Marshmallow Peeps, the number one non-chocolate Eas- ter candy treat in the U.S., is now also available in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Panama, China, Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and most recently South Africa. One waythecreators of this sweet treat have found to celebrate its international popularity is by offering directions to help create the World Peeps Easter 2001 Centerpiece. The colorful centerpiece is made with a chocolate cake base. The cakes are frosted with icing that has ocean blue coloring that is decorated with continents cut out of green tinged marzipan. To make the continents, the outlines of North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia and Europeare traced with paper andcutoutof chilled, thinly rolled green marzipan. The cake features a creme egg base and jelly bean streamers. Peeps and bunniesin assorted col- ors are arranged around the outer edge of the base, with vanilla . ie Long mayshe peep! With flags flying and new packaging, a favorite Easter treat takes on the world. from those countries now enjoying Peeps. Step-by-step instructions on how to create this “worldly” centerpiece can be found at www. marshmallowpeeps.com. Here fans can also visit Peepsville, send Peeps cards and even download Peepsiron-ons. This year’s Peeps collection also sports a new look for the fluffy sweets. A brighter new packaging color scheme matches the yellow, pink, creme eggs under the chicks and white, lavender and blue treats culinary ambassadorship, the Peeps imagery. Just Born, the manufacturers bunnies to give them height. To honor Peeps’ international cake baseis decorated with Peeps, Chicks and Bunnies, holding flags inside but incorporates familiar of Peeps, also produce MIKE AND IkE, Hot TAMALES and ZOURS.