What you'll need
- Pound cake, cut into 1-inch-thick slices
- White frosting
- Fruit leather (we used FruitaBu® Organic Smoooshed Grape Fruit Twirls)
- Flaked coconut
- An assortment of candies and jellies for sweet toppings and sushi sides
How to make it
Sushi bases:
For rolls, use a knife to cut 1 1/2-inch circles from a slice of cake.
Frost the tops of the circles, then wrap a 6-inch strip of fruit leather
seaweed around each one, using a dab of frosting to secure it. Press
coconut rice into the frosting. For individual sushi,
cut a cake slice into rectangles and round the edges, as shown. Frost
the top and sides of each oval, then roll it in coconut.- Sweet toppings:
From left to right, starting with the top row, we used orange
nonpareils, apricot preserves, and pieces of Twizzlers Rainbow Twists.
In the middle row, we used a green gumdrop slice, diced Swedish Fish,
and gumdrop wedges. On the bottom row, we topped the sushi base with a
Swedish Fish, then wrapped it with a strip of fruit leather.
- Sushi sides:
To make wasabi, warm a green Starburst candy in the microwave for 10
seconds, then use your hands to work it into a mound. For pickled
ginger, microwave and
flatten an orange Starburst candy, then bunch it up into a pile, as
shown.
