Chocolate Covered Peeps

I know most people love Peeps or hate them - no grey area. I'm one that loves them, but I like to cut a little slit in the package and let them get stale for a few days. Mmm, crunchy Peeps. For those of you that like a pure shot of sugar in the shape of a chick, here's a way to step up the game: chocolate. Craftster user notyourstar has a good tutorial on how to do it. Seems self-explanatory, but she has a few good tips (freeze your Peeps first, otherwise they will melt when they hit the hot chocolate).

'Course, you could always just buy them.

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Photo from MrChocolate.

I like to cut a slit in the Peeps package too, to let them get stale, but it seems they've started putting more preservatives in them because I waited a whole 2 months and they still weren't stale.
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I haven't had Peeps since my grandfather was alive, and can't bring myself to eat them anymore because of the sweet memories I have of sharing them with him - back when they only came in pink or yellow. I am a little put off by the new colors, even. But chocolate covered? I would totally try those.
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Kathy, I agree with you completely. Nice to know I'm not crazy preferring them stale. I used to be able to crack a package and within hours the thinner bunnies would begin to get crispy. Now I take them completely out of the package and lay them on a plate for days. It's a battle to not have somebody else steal them whilst laying out. And they still don't get as crunchy as days gone by.
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"For those of you that like a pure shot of sugar in the shape of a chick,..." OK, we don't get Peeps here in Canada, but those look a lot more like bunnies than chicks. Just curious, are they available in two shapes, or has the bunny/egg Easter confusion led to a mental interchangeability between species?
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OMG!! Chocolate covering makes everything taste better doesn't it? For Sonny, here in the states they do come in bunnies, chicks and tulips which I have never seen. Then we have all of the holiday varieties as they are trying to introduce the goodness of marshmallow throughout the year. Hearts and bears for Valentine's Day, pumpkins, ghosts and "black cats" for Halloween and Snowmen, trees, stars and the word JOY. I'm not sure if this is obsessing or wishful thinking since the Peeps are off the menu now :(
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Sonny, in the US, what you Canadians call "bunnies" we call "chicks".

I love the flavored peeps that they've come up with recently. Vanilla and chocolate flovered, particularly.
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My mom has an unnatural HATRED for Peeps. We have to watch her in the store around Easter because she cannot help herself from crushing the Peeps through the package.

She also absolutely hates the Pillsbury Dough Boy and has no idea why. I joke with her that she needs to she a confectionery psychiatrist.
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Um Byrd, no we dont.

Sonny, the candy pictured are Peeps Bunnies. Peeps come in several shapes now but they used to only come in two, Bunnies and Chicks. The chicks are usually just referred to by the brand name Peeps.

I like the bunnies a lot better because a bite of a chick is too much marshmallow at one time for me. I read a trivia question that said it used to take 27 hours to make a peep from start to finish and now it takes 6 minutes.
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SenorMysterioso, yes we do. Another thing we do in the US is play jokes on other people on April first. Prime targets are unsuspecting Canadians, as everyone knows.
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