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Would you like an idea for a fun activity to share with your kids? How about an activity that will teach them some valuable skills? Bake a delicious treat with your kids. 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 certainly does look like real sushi and that’s what your kids will like the most: they get to feel like they’re actual sushi chefs. Just like playing “house” they can pretend to make actual sushi rolls. They’ll want to take the candy sushi to their teachers. They’ll want to promote their homemade treat to grandma and grandpa. They’ll call their friends, cousins, aunts and uncles to announce to the world that they made homemade candy. 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 concoction of crisped rice cereal that represents the real rice, gummy worms (you could also add red string licorice) to represent the fish, and the rolls wrapped in fruit leather which represents seaweed. It is the candy equivalent of makizushi rolls.

How do you make candy sushi?

The technique of making candy sushi is not complex. There are only the few ingredients previously mentioned and 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. You can choose a decorative Japanese plate on which to place them. And for added taste set aside some chocolate dipping sauce to represent soy sauce. If you wish to eat them for yourselves, then take a make-believe visit to a sushi bar.