doughcake toadstools

"fairies do nothing but sit around on toadstools all day giggling and fluttering their wings and eating cake."
bollox!
i fight rush hour traffic on the BART all week long and spend my weekends doing laundry and sleeping off the night before.
fairies only sit on toadstools when they are in 'time out' as children.... it's like being put in the corner with a dunce cap on.... humiliating.
nonetheless, as i've been asked to write something about toadstools as well as post some fairy cake recipes i will multi-task and get both over with at once.

as you know, i am more into haute cuisine
and don't cook
i eat fresh home-made meals daily, made at the home of Roots, the gourmet fairy bistro.
this sort of homespun stuff is not part of my skill set

so i've browsed the web to find a maternal betty crocker type to help things along.  i found bethany. she is not a fairy, but a paper pony... huh... i didn't know those of the wood pulp persuasion were so domestically inclined...

anywho, here is what she suggests:
assemble the following "large marshmallows, sticks (you can use lollipop sticks or just skewers), red candy melts, white chocolate chips and doughnut holes. Oh, and make sure you have a wax paper lined cookie sheet near by." .... doesn't everyone have a wax-paper-lined cookie sheet nearby? snicker snicker... ok i'll go sit on my toadstool and be quiet now.

"Then, cut the doughnut balls in half. In the microwave, melt the red chocolate candy and dip the half-doughnuts using a fork and scraping the bottom before you place it on wax paper so you don't get a huge build-up of candy on the bottom." huge build-up of candy?  she says that like it's a bad thing... 

"Give it about a minute to barely set and then place white chocolate chips in the top... this is a good job for the kids."... she's entrusting the coveted white chocolate chips to children? why not just let your 6 yr old drive your ferrari... sheesh!
"It doesn't really matter if this step is a little messy, you can clean up the edges later." ... licking the candy off the edges... now she's talkin!

"Then, set up the container in which you will be placing your pops by lining it with at least an inch of foam... I always save foam board when it comes in boxes and packages because you can always find a use for it and who wants to fork out the dough for foam?" 

... huh?  lady, ya lost me. i have no idea what you're talking about... the only foam i know of comes on top of a creme brulee latte

"Place large marshmallows on a stick leaving about a half an inch sticking out of the top. Then stick in the foam. When you have the marshmallow sticks all done and arranged the way you want, add the dipped doughnut holes to the tops.To glue them together, you can add a dollop of melted candy to the bottom of the doughnut before you attach it and then, when you place it on the end of the stick, gently hold the tops (dipped doughnuts) and bottoms (marshmallows) together for a minute or until secure. Add moss or whatever you want to cover the foam board and you're done." ok these do look very nice... and they were made with doughnuts, which fairies jones over even more than cops do..... thanks bethany....  

[For details visit: http://mypaperpony.blogspot.com/2010/06/easy-marshmallow-mushroom-pops-smurfday.html]

but if you're anything like me you'll most likely punk out and head to Midtown Sweets to order these

chocolate kisses to you all, 
e.