I was inspired to revisit sprinkles, thanks to Stella’s visit to the doughnut shop. She has made making sprinkles a badge of honor to be hard-earned. For my take on sprinkles, I looked to our glazes. The spark came from watching Amaya eat a piece of dried glaze off the rack. It behaved like a sprinkle. I made a batch of banana glaze and piped it in thin lines on several parchment paper-lined sheet pans. I let the lines dry for about 3 hours. I passed the buck on cutting the dried sticks to Aki. She was not thrilled with me. The cutting of the dried glaze was awkward and, yes, a bit of a crumbly mess. She used a metal bench scraper to cut the sprinkles on the sheet pans. The sprinkles stuck to the parchment paper and had to be scraped off. It was a little awkward and messy, but the sprinkles were delicious. They are definitely worth the effort. They are flavor-packed banana bits that allow us to sprinkle flavor where we want it. Here we’ve sprinkled them on a chocolate-glazed doughnut, but who knows where they’ll turn up next?
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