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Christmas Candy Sushi Recipe

Create this Christmas candy sushi recipe for the holidays. Kids of all ages will love this fun food!

I love sushi! I love all kinds of sushi! There is not a sushi that I have tried, that I did not like.

I do not eat it very often because it is expensive and I have never been able to master making it.

Not everyone is a fan of sushi, but I have created some that I think most people will enjoy.

Christmas Candy Sushi Recipe at bottom of the post

It is a sweet sushi made out of candy. It is not hard to make.

I first saw sushi made out of candy and sweets several years ago at a birthday party that my daughter attended. The mother of the birthday girl did a fantastic job of creating all sorts of dessert sushi recipes using gummy worms, swedish fish, and fruit roll ups.

I remember being so mesmerized by it and decided that I needed to make some myself someday.

I want to to make sushi that looked different from the treats I saw at the birthday party. When I saw soft candies in the store with a Christmas tree center, I knew that I needed to make Christmas sushi.

Enjoy my other Christmas Candy creations: Candy Cane Mud Pie, Candy Cane Microwave Fudge, or Christmas Candy Bark.

Rice Krispie Treat Sushi

This recipe requires you to make something rice krispie treats. This puffed rice cereal represents the rice that is used in rice krispie sushi.

Used a rolling pin to make the marshmallow rice cereal treats into a thin sheet.

I used rolls of fruit candy for the outside of my sushi. You can use any kind of fruit brother that you want.

Candy Sushi Rolls

Aren’t these little pieces of sushi adorable? They would be perfect to serve at a holiday party or as a holiday treat at school or other gatherings.

I could also see them being used as a decoration on a gingerbread house.

Have you ever made candy sushi?

Christmas Candy Sushi Recipe

Create this Christmas candy sushi recipe for the holidays.

Ingredients

Puffed Rice cereal
Mini Marshmallows
Butter
Fruit Roll-ups or Fruit by the Foot
Christmas Tree Candies

Instructions

Melt the marshmallows and butter together.

Stir in the rice cereal.

Roll the rice krispie treats into a thin sheet.

Unroll the fruit by the foot and lay on top of the rice krispie treats.

Cut the rice krispie treats the width of the fruit roll up.

Flip that over, so that the rice krispie are on top of the fruit roll-up.

Open the Christmas tree candy inside of the rice krispie treat, keeping the fruit roll-up on the outside.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Jars

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Does your family or office host an annual Christmas Party with an Ugly Christmas Sweater contest? Reward the winners with honey jars dressed in Ugly Christmas Sweaters.

Each year our family hosts a White Elephant Christmas Party. Attendees spend all year trying to find the funniest gift to wrap. We like to dress up in Ugly Christmas Sweaters, but not all guest do.

This year we are encouraging our guests to dress by offering prizes. I created these Ugly Christmas Sweater Jars to give out. This year I am wearing my husband’s Christmas sweater along with some matching leggings that I recently got.

Last week I was at the store and saw these neat jars of honey on the shelf. Their round shape brought up nostalgic feelings. My mom used to keep buttons and other sewing notions in globe food jars like this. The shape of these jars reminds me of Christmas ornaments, so I thought it would be fun to decorate them as holiday gifts.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Jars

On my second jar, I created a cardigan by adding a V of felt to the front of the sock. I trimmed the the V with a pipe cleaner. Then I added pompoms, stickers, and a bow. Isn’t it cute?

I’ve done two jars so far, but I will be making more so each guest that shows up in an Ugly Christmas outfit gets one.

I think our guest will really love these prizes because they are made with jars of Don Victor® Honey. These affordable jars are an inexpensive “gourmet” gift to give out during the holidays. Don Victor® Honey is raw, filtered honey, not heated or processed in any other way.

My favorite thing about the product is the honeycomb inside that can be eaten. I love to cut off a small piece of the honeycomb and spread it on a hot piece of toast fresh out of the toaster. The heat softens up the honeycomb.

I will be opening a jar and serving it at our party with brie and crackers. This honey pairs well with any variety of cheese.

Find Don Victor® Honey in the Hispanic Food Aisle of your local Walmart.
How will you decorate your jars of honey or other globe shaped jars?

Yield: 1 per jar

Ugly Christmas Sweaters for Jars

Create a fun and unique gift by making Ugly Christmas Sweaters for food jars.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Active Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Difficulty easy

Estimated Cost $5

Materials

Globe Jars
Stretchy socks in Christmas colors
Christmas embellishments

Tools

Low Temp Hot Glue Gun & sticks
Scissors

Instructions

Cut off a small section of a sock to fit over your jar of honey. Mine was approximately 3” long.

Stretch the sock over the jar.

Hot glue the embellishments onto the sock to recreate the ugly sweater design.

Notes

This makes a perfect hostess gift or prize for an Ugly Christmas Sweater contest.

I'd love to see your creation. Please share it on this pin on Pinterest.

Microwave Candy Cane Fudge

Create this Candy Cane Fudge in the microwave. Bring it to a party or gift it to a friend or neighbor.

I love peppermint. I can’t make any holiday treat without mint entering my mind. Nothing says mint and Christmas like candy canes. Last week I brought you Candy Cane Mud Pie and this week I have Candy Cane Fudge. Enjoy this rich and creamy sweet treat.

Candy Cane Fudge Recipe

This fudge is very easy to make with a minimum of ingredients. It just takes a minute or two of microwave time and a short time in the refrigerator and it is ready.

The recipe calls for food coloring, but I did not add any to my fudge. I liked the pink color of the candy cane. I might add a drop or two the next time I make this.

This recipe can easily be doubled, but I only recommend that for a large group. I served it as part of our holiday party that had several other sweets and there were still a few pieces left at the end. This fudge will keep for quite a while when refrigerated.

Have you ever had candy cane fudge?

Diana Rambles

Microwave Candy Cane Fudge

Create this smooth and rich candy cane fudge in the microwave.

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Ingredients

1 can of sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 bags of white chocolate chips
2 tablespoons of butter
1 teaspoon of pure peppermint extract
12 small or 3 large candy canes
optional: red food coloring

Instructions

Place the butter in a large glass bowl and microwave for 15 seconds to soften.
Finely crush the candy canes and set aside.
Add the condensed milk and white chips to the bowl.
Microwave on high for 45 seconds, then stir.
Microwave in 30 seconds increments and then stir until the white chocolate chips are melted.
Stir in the peppermint extract.
Add a few drops of food coloring if desired.
Stir in the crushed candy canes.
Pour into a foil lined 8x8 dish.
Sprinkle crushed candy cane on top.
Refrigerate until firm.

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DIY Holiday Photo Card in Minutes

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Need a last minute holiday card? Check out this DIY Holiday Photo Card tutorial and create your own at home with free graphics and have it printed at a one-hour photo service.

If you are anything like me, you procrastinate your holiday cards. Every year I say that I will do a better job next year, but it never happens. I usually end up doing them around mid-December or when our crazy schedule settles down. We are only one week until Christmas and I am finally getting them done.

Since I am way behind on our photo cards, I decided to quickly create them and upload them to a local one-hour photo printing service. I created a simple but cute card in minutes, and I got a notice that they had been printed about 15 minutes after uploading them. That sure erases my procrastination guilt!

To help ease your guilt, I have created a DIY holiday photo card tutorial on how I made these cute cards for you to follow. You can create your own custom card in minutes and have them in the mail this afternoon.

DIY Holiday Photo Card Tutorial

Select a photo to use for your card. I selected an ugly Christmas sweater photo that was taken last week at our holiday party.
Sign up for free graphics from GraphicStock to use in the card. You can get a 7-day free trial right now from GraphicStock. That includes 140 graphics from the library during your trial. Please note~ The trial automatically rolls into monthly plan after the 7 days, so don’t forget to set a reminder!
If you didn’t know, GraphicStock it is an affordable, subscription-based stock media site that gives you unlimited access to stock graphics, vectors, infographics and more. GraphicStock gives you royalty-free access to their library of 250,000 graphics, images, vectors, icons, and more. All files from GraphicStock are 100% royalty-free, so you keep what you download and maintain usage rights forever. Don’t get into copyright trouble by downloading images from Google! Get proper images from GraphicStock. Just sign up, log in, and start downloading.
Browse the GraphicStock library to find the graphics you want to use. I searched Christmas tag vector images and quickly found a cute penguin image that I liked. I downloaded the jpg and then opened it in PhotoShop Elements.
Using the Magic Eraser Tool, erase the cream-colored inside of the frame that the penguin is holding. Erase the wording using the regular eraser.
Create a new 4″x6″ image. I used the preset and named it Christmas Card 2016. I rotated it since I wanted a horizontal card. I changed the color of the background to a different color since there was white in the graphic.
Pull the penguin image onto the blank card and position it where you want it. I put mine on the left side. I added white rectangle to right side to cover up the background and merged it with the penguin image.
Using the magic wand too, cut the white bckground areas out of the penguin layer. I hide each layer as I cut it so that I can see what I have done. When all layers have been cut I hide the penguin layer and (pink) background, unhide the others, and then merge visible.
Drag the photo into the card file and below the white background layer. Resize to fit the frame.
Add a background to the card. I thought a snowflake design would look good, so I went back to GraphicStock and searched snowflake pattern. I located a blue background that I thought would look good. I downloaded the jpg and then opened it in PhotoShop Elements.
I pulled the background into the penguin file, resized and repositioned it, then clipped it into the white background layer. I thought the blue was too bold, so I turned the opacity down to 60%.
Add the text. I added my Christmas message and our last name. I also changed the blue starts to dark green so they would pop against the blue background. Save file as a jpg on highest image quality possible. I also saved the entire file as a PSD.

I think the card turned out cute! Do you like it? Create your own card with images from GraphicStock today.

My cards are in the mailbox and I am feeling so relieved. I attached a card to a tin of cookies to give to a neighbor.

I am providing a cop of the card I created for you to personalize. Download the png file of the card here (you will need to right click to save), open in your photo editing program, add your photograph, and print.
Happy Holidays!

DIY Gingerbread Bakery Cake Hack

Use this bakery cake hack to create an amazing cake with very little effort for your next holiday party.

Do you want to bring a beautiful cake to a party that will really wow the other guests? Try this gingerbread man bakery cake hack that you don’t have to bake. It’s put together with minimal effort. Perfect when you are short on time and need an eye-catching dessert.

This gingerbread cake is made with a premade plain white cake from a store bakery. I purchased a cake for $6. I struggle to make my cake frosting look professional, so I just bought an undecorated cake. I purchased packaged gingerbread man cookies, candy, and frosting to assemble the cake with.

Gingerbread Bakery Cake Hack

Place some frosting into the zippered plastic sandwich bag.
Cut a small diagonal into a bottom corner of the plastic to squeeze frosting out of.
Use small amounts of frosting to decorate the front of the gingerbread cookies with candies. I added two buttons to each of my gingerbread men.
Place gingerbread cookies around the outside of the cake using frosting as glue on the back to hold them onto the cake.
Glue candies with frosting in between each cookie.
Stand gingerbread cookies up against each other in the middle of the cake. I used a liberal amount of frosting to hold them in place.
Decorate the rest of the top of the cake by gluing candies in place. I created a pattern with my candy.

Isn’t that adorable? There is no way that I could create such a professional looking cake without the aid of prepared items. I had several people ask me where I got the cake. I was proud to say that I created it myself! I did share the secret to creating it.

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This cake can easily be adapted using other cookies or candies. You could even get two sizes of cakes and layer. How would you decorate your cake?

Diana Rambles

DIY Gingerbread Bakery Cake Hack

Create a bakery quality cake using pre-made items. No baking required!

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Ingredients

white frosted bakery cake
gingerbread cookies
white frosting
colorful candy
zippered plastic sandwich bag

Instructions

Place some frosting into the zippered plastic sandwich bag.
Cut a small diagonal into a bottom corner of the plastic to squeeze frosting out of.
Use small amounts of frosting to decorate the front of the gingerbread cookies with candies. I added two buttons to each of my gingerbread men.
Place gingerbread cookies around the outside of the cake using frosting as glue on the back to hold them onto the cake.
Glue candies with frosting in between each cookie.
Stand gingerbread cookies up against each other in the middle of the cake. I used a liberal amount of frosting to hold them in place.
Decorate the rest of the top of the cake by gluing candies in place. I created a pattern with my candy.

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