The Dessert Blog

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.

Adore chocolate? Enjoy cheesecake? Think rich chocolate cheesecake is the best one can do to get to the incomparable ideal of delicious? You’re not alone! I believe that there are many like you and me out there: “chocolate cheesecake lovers of the world, unite!” In honor of chocolate cheesecake and all of its lovers, I have collected the following list of the most important uses of chocolate cheesecake in everyday life.

1) Holidays and Hard Days

Chocolate cheesecake is unquestionably the perfect finale for both good days and bad days. Is there any better way to finish your holiday get-together than with a creamy chocolate cheesecake? Whether partying with family or friends, whether the evening has gone without a hitch or full of holes, whether the main course was mouth-watering or stale, providing cheesecake at the end of the holiday meal that all your guests will go home talking about what a wonderful and talented host you are!

Likewise, I can think of few ways to perk one up at the end of a rough day than a tasty slice of chocolate cheesecake. Let all your cares and worries melt away with that first bite of heaven

2) One, Two, Three Times a Day

Anyone who was disciplined enough to let that last slice of chocolate cheesecake stay until morning knows just how splendid cheesecake is for breakfast. Cold cheesecake with milk is a perfect way to start off your day. Chocolate cheesecake is also an invaluable addition to any lunch menu. And little, I believe, needs to be said about the compliments cheesecake makes to even the least appetizing dinners! If you still haven’t had enough, try having some chocolate cheesecake for dessert, or even your midnight snack.

3) Monday, Wednesday Friday, and Any Other Day of the Week

Is it just me, or is that temptation for some chocolate cheesecake always around during the start of the week? And who can resist dipping in for some chocolate cheesecake at the end of a long, hard work week? But why only indulge yourself on Mondays and Fridays when you have other days that you can treat yourself to more chocolate cheesecake?

Well chocolate cheesecake lovers, if this doesn’t make you feel a little better about your admirable obsession for an admirable dessert, then consider this: you can get your cheesecake sugar-free (yes, even chocolate cheesecake)! Just look online for sugar free cheesecake stores and have your daily dose of cheesecake without any of that pesky guilt!