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a machine that produced multiple marshmallow chicks at one time. The marshmallow slurry flows through tubes with quick stops, and moves on a bed of colored sugar when a chick is born. The marshmallow chick continues on his bed of sugar into a wind tunnel where the colored sugar is blown, covering each chick. Eyes are added to chicks after they have received their sugar shower. Peeps have taken on other shapes over the years bunnies, pumpkins, Christmas trees, snowmen, stars, footballs, eggs, ghost, teddy bears and yes, even giant bunnies. Favorite Peep colors are yellow, followed by pink, lavender and blue. Other colors are orange, green, purple, red and white. Peeps also come chocolate covered, and with just their feet covered with chocolate and sprinkles. So whether you eat your Peeps fresh, stale, frozen or chocolate-covered, remember: It would take 172 million Peep bunnies to circle the moon. Peeps have become a favorite to dip in fondue. Peeps have their own website. It would take 70 million Peeps beak to tail to go coast to coast in the United States. Each Peep has 28 calories and zero grams of fat. Peeps have their own sing-a-long CD. Peeps are now available to over 1.5 billion people around the world. Once you see Peeps in the stores for Easter, you know spring is on its way.

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aborious, painstaking, and sticky. One by one they were created, each designed, hand-crafted, coated and decorated, taking up to 24 hours to create. Well, that is until 1948 when Alex Doumak devised a recipe that changed the world of marshmallows as we know it. What? Confused? OK lets back up. The number one Easter non-chocolate candy is the Peep. Yep, that marshmallow, sugar coated chick or bunny that we consume enough of to go around the earth two times at Easter alone. Marshmallows started in Egypt where the juice was taken from the root of the marshmallow plant so named because the plants were found along the banks of salt marshes and larger bodies of water. This juice was mixed with eggs and sugar, then whipped and allowed to harden. It was prescribed to sooth sore throats in children. However, in the mid-1800s the juice from the marshmallow roots was replaced with gelatin. Today gelatin, corn syrup and/or sugar, gum Arabic, and flavoring are the ingredients in marshmallows. Adding flavors made for a sweet confection enjoyed by all. First whipped together, the ingredients are soft and pliable. Once placed in a pastry tube the original chick shape was piped, coated in colored sugar and allowed to dry for 24 hours. It was Sam Born, a young man from Russia who was given the keys to the city of San Francisco for inventing a machine that inserted sticks into lollipops, who is credited with the manufacturing of the Peep. Mr. Born opened his first candy shop in New York City in 1917, and by 1923 started his own manufacturing company called Just Born. In 1932 Just Born moved to Bethlehem, PA into an empty printing factory. Mr. Borns company grew and grew as he acquired other candy companies, and introduced new lines of candy such as Mike & Ike and Hot Tamales. Rodda Candy of Lancaster, PA, known for its jelly bean production and small marshmallow product line, became part of the Just Born family in 1953. The three dimensional chick was part of that marshmallow line. Sam Borns son Bob helped to create

76 percent of Americans admit to eating the ears off their chocolate bunnies rst, followed by ve percent who go for the feet, and four percent who prefer the tail. Adults chose milk chocolate bunnies over dark chocolate ones. Of those same adults, 86 percent voted for chocolate bunnies on Easter morning over live bunnies. 16 billion jellybeans are made just for Easter. That is enough jellybeans to ll a plastic egg the size of a nine-story building. Kids favorite is the red jellybean. For extra Easter candy, 75 percent of children are willing to do extra chores around the house. 57 percent of American children get up extra early on Easter morning. 80 percent of parents continue the tradition of helping the Easter bunny with baskets. Germany is given the honor of having the rst chocolate Easter eggs, which remain one of the most popular Easter candies today. Solid bunnies are the top choice over hollow and marshmallow lled bunnies. After Halloween, Easter is the biggest candy-consuming holiday in America. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest Easter egg was 25 feet high and made of chocolate and marshmallow. It weighed 8,968 pounds.

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TODAYS CROSSWORD PUZZLE

4. Born opened rst candy store here. 6. First known place that used marshmallow roots. 9. Twenty eight in each Peep. 11. Peeps are created on a bed of _______. 12. Peeps have their own _______. 14. Candy maker who came from Russia. 15. Candy that Mr. Born invented sticks for. 16. Known for their jellybean production. 18. Replaced root juice. 19. Building in Bethlehem, PA that became a candy factory.
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Gramma Tooties Peep Cake

1 box lemon cake mix, along with the ingredients needed to prepare the cake mix 1 can of lemon frosting Several yellow chick Peeps Mix cake according to directions. Pour into a 9x13 pan and bake according to directions with help from an adult. Once cake is cooled, frost with the entire can of frosting. Place Peeps in rows so that, once cut, each piece of cake will have its own Peep.