Image above: Peeps Sushi. Source: CarbonNYC on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.
Sweet "Sushi" Desserts and Party Treats
Sushi normally is traditionally with raw fish, vegetables and vinegar rice. But you can make fun "dessert sushi" with all kinds of ingredients!
Can you eat sushi for dessert?
Yes, you can! Although it might not be quite the sushi you were expecting...
You can create fun party foods and delightful desserts that look just like sushi rolls and pieces, but don't exactly contain wasabi, rice and raw fish! How about "Peeps Sushi" for Easter, using the favorite marshmallow sweets and rice crispy cakes? Or perhaps using a white cake as a base for sushi-style decorations and icing?
These fun and tasty treats are sure to make people do a double-take and be a creative dessert to serve at a birthday or themed party. Here you'll find some clever ideas and photographs for inspiration.
These colorful sweet "sushi" bites would be fun for an Easter party—and a neat treat to make with the kids! All you need are Peeps, Rice Krispies Treats, and a box of Fruit by the Foot (to substitute for seaweed, of course.)
You can find the full instructions on how to make at SeriousEats, including photos of lots of different creative ways to prepare Peepshi!
While intended for use with rice, these sushi molds would come in handy for making a lot of the sweet treats shown on this page.
Rectangular Sushi Rice Press MoldThis rectangular sushi rice press features 5 compartments for easy molding of rice in preparation for your favorite sushi.
$7.99
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Besides the clever "fake" sushi pieces and rolls shown above, you actually can make sweet, real sushi rolls that are tasty desserts and treats! The recipe, shared by Seelen Sturm, involves making sweet sushi rice by adding milk, sugar and vanilla. The sushi pieces are then made using ingredients such as green apple, strawberries, pear and melon and served with both wasabi and honey for a sweet and spicy finish. Definitely a good one for those who aren't afraid to experiment with unusual flavor combinations!
Another great idea for a fun party display is to use white cake to make little cake sushi bites. In this project from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, the cake was sliced to resemble sushi rice, and then decorated with Fruit by the Foot (for seaweed), Swedish fish (for, well, the fish!), Jujubees and sprinkles (for the fish roe) and dried fruit as well. Green-colored icing was used to imitate the Wasabi.
Are you a fondant modeling master? If so, you might be able to create something like these fabulously decorated petit fours. The cake is first decorated by coconut and then topped with fondant "shrimp" and wasabi paste. A real work of art!
These little molds are perfect for either making traditional sushi fun for kids, or working with fondant to make sweet sushi treats!
You can make some fast fake sushi by using Twinkie cakes and decorating them as you wish, such as here using fruit roll ups, M&Ms and coconut. (I'd add some decorative splashes of chocolate syrup on the plate to look like eel sauce or soy sauce, myself...)
Watch sweet sushi being made
Instructional videos on YouTube
Rice Krispies, sweet rice, and candy treats...here are some tutorials to show you how to make dessert sushi rolls and "nigiri" pieces.
What do you think of sweet sushi?
Would you want to try making some for yourself?
Comments welcome!
Comments
sockiiApr 18, 2015
AngelaJohnsonApr 18, 2015
I do like regular sushi, though, and it doesn't all contain raw fish.