Marshmallows

Whether your favorite sweet treat is a candy, cookie, snack or dessert, you could be a winner if your recipe relies on marshmallow cream. Entries are currently being accepted for the 1985 Kraft Marshmallow Creme Easy Secret Ingredient recipe contest. The grand prize is $5,000. There will be three $1,000 first prizes and 11 second-place prizes of $100. Runner-up prizes will also be awarded.

It was rain and marshmallows Friday for 2,500 children here as a helicopter dropped 15,000 of the pillowy sweets in a drenched "new wave Easter egg hunt." The fifth annual "Great Marshmallow Drop" went off without incident despite the rain, said Vic Chiasson, leisure services coordinator at the Wayne Community Center in suburban Detroit. "It was a zoo," Chiasson said. "Everything went real well. The weather didn't cooperate like we had hoped.