Would you like to participate in a fun activity with your kids? How about participating in an activity that will give your kids a chance to practice some valuable culinary skills? Try baking. Kids love to eat desserts and making them is a similar activity to making crafts except crafts don’t taste good? There are many sweets to choose from, but today we will try something that will really get our kids creative juices flowing: candy sushi.
It cerainly does have startling resemblence of real sushi and that’s the best part for your kids: they get to pretend to be real sushi chefs. Just like playing “house” they can pretend to make actual sushi rolls. They’ll want to take their finished sweets masterpiece to their teachers. They’ll want to show it off to their grandparents. They’ll call their cousin, all their relatives and make an announcement to the world that they made a dessert themselves. This will start a string of other desserts they’ll want to make with mom or dad, giving you more fun things to do with your kids.
So what exactly is candy sushi?
It’s a combination of crisped rice cereal that represents the real rice, gummy worms (you could also add red string licorice) to represent the fish, and all wrapped in a fruit roll up (or fruit leather) which represents seaweed. It is the sweets version of makizushi rolls.
So how do you make candy sushi?
The technique of making candy sushi is not complex. You only need a few ingredients and there’s no baking involved. There’s just a little prep work involved, mixing melted butter and marshmallows with crisped rice, pressing and rolling the mix, adding some gummy worms, cutting the mix into rolled pieces and then wrapping them in fruit leather. Sushi candy rolls are colorful, fun to make for your kids and taste great!
Don’t refrigerate them for too long or the gummy worms and fruit leather will begin to harden and lose flavor. Give them away as candy gifts or eat them yourself. You can place them on a decorative Japanese dish. And for added taste set aside some chocolate dipping sauce to represent soy sauce. If you decide to eat them yourselves then you and the kids can pretend you paid a visit to a sushi bar.