Happy May!
If you've been to the grocery store, the drug store, Target, or really anywhere lately, I'm sure you can't help but notice the MASSIVE amounts of Easter candy marked down to practically nothing. And for these prices, you'd be crazy to pass up pastel M&Ms, jelly beans, and those weird speckled Peeps. But then you get home and think - what on earth am I going to do with this truckload of cavity-inducing sugar bombs? Don't worry! We've got lots of ideas for those extra Easter candies.
First up, we'll take on the quintessential Easter candy - Jelly Beans.
I'm pretty sure every candy manufacturer out there now has its own brand of jelly beans. Used to be you could only find the weird generic ones with no real label or Jelly Belly brand. Now you can buy Starburst, Jolly Rancher, Cadbury, and pretty much whatever else you can think of brand jelly beans. My personal favorite this Easter season was the Jolly Rancher bag - strawberry, orange, blue raspberry, watermelon, grape, and green apple.
With our leftover jelly beans, we'll be making sushi roll cupcakes! In addition to jelly beans, you'll need some black fondant, shredded coconut, Starbursts (or an orange-y pink fondant or other candy), and of course some baked cupcakes and white frosting.
After your cupcakes have baked and cooled, go ahead and frost them with a white frosting of your choice. Next, open your bag of shredded coconut and pour it into a shallow bowl. This will make covering the cupcakes in coconut much easier because you can dip your frosted tops into the bowl without making too much of a mess.
Now it's up to you to decide how many sushi rolls to make versus Nigiri sushi (rice with sashimi on top). For the Nigiri sushi, we'll take the orange and lemon Starbursts and flatten them into pieces of "raw fish." Place them on top of your coconut covered cupcakes and top with a thin piece of black fondant to serve as the seaweed wrap. For the sushi rolls we'll be using the jelly beans! First you will need to take the cupcake wrappers off of all the cupcakes you want to make rolls with. Next, take your rolled fondant and cut to size so you can wrap them around the cupcakes. Spread a thing layer of frosting on one side of the fondant to adhere it to the cupcake. Then, place the jelly beans in the middle of your coconut top, and use additional frosting to secure them if necessary. Just make sure you cover any additional frosting with more coconut to keep up the rice appearance. I stuck with the orange and red colored jelly beans with a scant green one thrown in for good measure.
Now I know you probably have a few dozen sets of take-out chopsticks laying around your kitchen. Snag a few of those to make the presentation even better and you've got quite the deceiving dish!
If you've been to the grocery store, the drug store, Target, or really anywhere lately, I'm sure you can't help but notice the MASSIVE amounts of Easter candy marked down to practically nothing. And for these prices, you'd be crazy to pass up pastel M&Ms, jelly beans, and those weird speckled Peeps. But then you get home and think - what on earth am I going to do with this truckload of cavity-inducing sugar bombs? Don't worry! We've got lots of ideas for those extra Easter candies.
First up, we'll take on the quintessential Easter candy - Jelly Beans.I'm pretty sure every candy manufacturer out there now has its own brand of jelly beans. Used to be you could only find the weird generic ones with no real label or Jelly Belly brand. Now you can buy Starburst, Jolly Rancher, Cadbury, and pretty much whatever else you can think of brand jelly beans. My personal favorite this Easter season was the Jolly Rancher bag - strawberry, orange, blue raspberry, watermelon, grape, and green apple.
With our leftover jelly beans, we'll be making sushi roll cupcakes! In addition to jelly beans, you'll need some black fondant, shredded coconut, Starbursts (or an orange-y pink fondant or other candy), and of course some baked cupcakes and white frosting.
After your cupcakes have baked and cooled, go ahead and frost them with a white frosting of your choice. Next, open your bag of shredded coconut and pour it into a shallow bowl. This will make covering the cupcakes in coconut much easier because you can dip your frosted tops into the bowl without making too much of a mess.
Now it's up to you to decide how many sushi rolls to make versus Nigiri sushi (rice with sashimi on top). For the Nigiri sushi, we'll take the orange and lemon Starbursts and flatten them into pieces of "raw fish." Place them on top of your coconut covered cupcakes and top with a thin piece of black fondant to serve as the seaweed wrap. For the sushi rolls we'll be using the jelly beans! First you will need to take the cupcake wrappers off of all the cupcakes you want to make rolls with. Next, take your rolled fondant and cut to size so you can wrap them around the cupcakes. Spread a thing layer of frosting on one side of the fondant to adhere it to the cupcake. Then, place the jelly beans in the middle of your coconut top, and use additional frosting to secure them if necessary. Just make sure you cover any additional frosting with more coconut to keep up the rice appearance. I stuck with the orange and red colored jelly beans with a scant green one thrown in for good measure.Now I know you probably have a few dozen sets of take-out chopsticks laying around your kitchen. Snag a few of those to make the presentation even better and you've got quite the deceiving dish!
