A friend just gave me an Australian cookbook. There’s a recipe for Crazy Cookies that calls for “1/2 cup freckles (hundreds-and-thousands-coated-chocolates.” Freckles?! In my world, those are cute dots on people’s skin, not something one cooks with. Please advise.
They’re the little multi-colored sugar “dots” like you’d see on top of cupcakes or cakes. Not the long-shaped sprinkles that come on ice cream (in rainbow or chocolate), but the littler spherical ones.
That’s a horrible description, but do you know what I mean?
Thanks, y’all. It’s quite a relief to hear that the cookbook isn’t telling me to make Crazy Cannibal Cookies.
Wouldn’t those be ‘hundreds-and thousands’? I’m fairly certain Bad News Baboon’s link also shows what Australians would call 100s & 1000s, not Freckles. I thought Freckles were, as the OP says, little chocolate drops topped with 100s & 1000s and thousands.
If you can’t buy them then it would be easy enough to make your own freckles. Melt some milk chocolate, Drop it on some waxed paper to make a flat dollop about 1.5" across. While it’s still iquid coat it with as many 100s & 1000s as you can fit on. Leave to set.
Instant home made Freckles.
Blake is correct, although 1.5" is a bit big. More like 3/4".
Found a picture of Freckles here:
http://www.aussiefavourites.com.au/category2_1.htm
Not the best picture, but you can see the type of thing they are.
Homemade ones would be nicer as bought Freckles are made with nasty cheap chocolate.
You can make fairy bread with the leftover hundreds and thousands 
You have to remember that Aussies have a marvellous capacity to murder any language. We regularly misname many things - Circular Quay in Sydney is actually rectangular and as for rooting for your favourite footy team - fair enough but do it at home please not in public at the game
oh, ok!
Those look like an American candy called Sno-caps, except yours are bigger. Ours are the size of a chocolate chip (1/4").
Here’s another picture of the Sno-Caps, out of the box.
They look like a pretty good substitute, Bad News Baboon.
OMG!!! Thank you SO MUCH for that link! That is the most comprehensive Aussie food products site I’ve seen yet!
They have products on there I’d completely forgotten about!!!
Thank yew Thank yew Thank yew!!!
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Anybody want to run with the linguistic ball and explain to burundi what “busting a freckle” means. 
I’ve never heard that one myself (must be a bloody Easterner thing), but managed to figure it out thankyouverymuch! Not a chance. :o
And let’s not start discussing “dates”.
H&Ts are also called nonpareils
Nonpareils–okay, I’m back on familiar turf. It sounds like plain chocolate chips would work just fine in the recipe, too.
Fairy bread, Primaflora? I’m scared to ask. Although where I’m from, folks eat congealed salads and pickled pigs’ feet, so I can’t really mock too much.
Not quite. Freckles are flattened, not drop-shaped. The sprinkles are multicoloured (yes, this is important… aesthetically). I guess you could use a mix of choc chips and Hundreds-and-thousands sprinkles (assuming you have those there) but it just wouldn’t be the same IMHO.
Burundi: Fairy Bread is a popular treat at children’s birthday parties. It’s basically white bread, buttered and with the crusts cut off, and sprinkled with hundreds-and-thousands (which stick to the butter… very attractive and quite tasty).