Would you like to participate in a fun activity with your kids? How about trying an activity that will provide them an opportunity in which to practive some valuable home-ec 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 is a number of sweets from which to choose, but today we will focus on a unique treat that the kids will a lot of fun making and eating: candy sushi.

It really does look a lot like the real thing and that’s what kids love: playing make believe. It’s kind of like playing “house”, they pretend to make a real, actual dish. They play “make believe”. They’ll want to take their finished sweets masterpiece to their teachers. They’ll want to show off their “work of art” to their grandparents. They’ll call their aunts and uncles and broadcast to the world about their “master piece”. 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.

What 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 represents the real sushi version of makizushi rolls.

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 have a pretty presentation, tasty delicious and above all, are fun for the kids to create!

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. Find a decorative Japanese dish on which to serve them. And to add a twist serve the treat with some chocolate dipping sauce, which you got it: represents soy sauce. If you decide to eat them yourselves then you and the kids can pretend you paid a visit to a sushi bar.