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AGE
21
tional
Recipe
Shaping and making the candy sushi types
Rice crispies and candy have always gone together,
but with fruit candies most would question the flavor
and think it is gross.
Those two actually come quite nicely together in
a lovely combination of flavor and textures for these
fun candy versions of sushi.
Shape rice by hands for candy sushi.
Take a bigger handful of rice crispies and mold it
into a very tight triangle.
From one batch of rice crispies about 10 pieces of
sushi can be made.
The different kinds in the photographs are futomaki,
larger rolls with “seaweed” around them, nigiri,
the thicker fruit strip and Swedish fish on top, and
gunkan, the “fish roe” with nerds on top.
Great recipe to make with kids.
Nigiri For the Nigiri, use about half a handful of rice
crispies to make the base. While shaping this, roll it
as if making a snake out of clay.
The rice crispies must stay tight, so when rolling
make sure to use lots of pressure.
Once a thickness of an inch and a length of around
2 to 3 inches is reached, pinch the ends a bit to make
it look like a rounded tipped football.
Take a fruit roll up and cut in half, take one half and
cut into 4-6 pieces depending on thickness desired.
Place this under the rice log and grab either a fruit
strip, or a swedish fish for Sashimi to top the Nigiri.
Take the fruit roll up strip from underneath and tie it
over the candy of choice, Nigiri is done.
Rice Triangles:
Take around a handful of rice crispies and very
tightly press it into a round edged triangle.
Take a fruit roll up square and carefully wrap and
press it around the rice.
The corners can be showing, like in the photo, or it
can completely be cover.
Futomaki and Gunkan:
For both of these versions of sushi, thin sheet of rice
crispies are needed, about a 1/4 inch in thickness. It
should cover half of a fruit roll up square.
Pick out which candies to put inside of the Futomaki/
Gunkan and lay them in the middle on top of the rice
crispy sheet.
In the photographed a quartered lime flavored
tootsie rolls, about 1 whole one made it along the
length of the sheet since it was quartered, 1 twizzler,
and 4-5 Mike and Ike were used.
Once candy is placed, gently start rolling up the
roll, from the side that the rice crispy sheet starts on,
around the candy so it doesn’t rip and holds everything
inside.
It should have a simple and plain but tight log of
“sushi.”
Take a sharp knife and gently cut straight down,
without sawing, to cut about 1/2 inch to an inch thick
of a slice out of the “sushi log.”
Take the “Futomaki” and place nerds, or any small
round candy, on top to make it into “Gunkan.”
It’s traditional with sushi to have a garnish and/
or side of soy sauce and/or quail egg. Take a small
container and fill it partway with chocolate sauce to
dip the sushi in. Halve a mini cadbury creme egg to
be used as a side of quail egg.