Chocolate-frosted marshmallows/fruit on a stick

Your kids will enjoy helping with this recipe - and they'll be more than happy to eat the product of their labors afterwards. This is a great item for a kids' Christmas party, as well.

Ingredients:

15-20 large marshmallows
6 oz. semisweet chocolate
red and green sugars
waxed paper
toothpicks
cookie sheet or platter

Preparation:

Place a piece of waxed paper on cookie sheet or platter. Stick a toothpick into each marshmallow.

Heat the chocolate in a double boiler (or a smaller saucepan placed inside a larger saucepan of water if you don't have a double boiler) until melted. Take each marshmallow by the stick and dip in chocolate. Then pass it off to a kid who will then thoroughly roll it in red or green sugar.

Put the marshmallows on the cookie sheet and place in the refrigerator for about 4 hours.

Sliced bananas or other fruit of your choice may be substituted for the marshmallows.

Rachael Ray's Candy Sushi

I don't think the original intent of this recipe was for it to be a Christmas candy. However, if you select your fruit leather in red and green, and get red twizzler's, the result has that festive, X'mas look about it. I also venture that your Christmas table will be one of the relatively few that boasts Christmas sushi.

Ok - it's debatable whether it will be a hit with the adults. But the kids are gonna love it--

Recipe via foodnetwork.com

INGREDIENTS:

1 tablespoon butter, cut into pieces
12 regular marshmallows
2 cups puffed rice cereal
4 fruit roll-ups (pressed dried fruit rounds, 8 inches) any brand, any flavor
8 strips licorice candy, any flavor – pieces should be 6 to 7 inches long, trim to match width of roll-ups

PREPARATION:

Melt butter in a medium saucepan over low heat and add marshmallows. Stir marshmallows until completely melted. Remove mixture from heat and add cereal. Stir to coat cereal evenly in melted marshmallows.

Roll out the fruit roll-ups. Place 1/4 of the coated cereal onto each fruit roll up and spread and gather toward 1 side of roll up. Place 2 licorice twists onto the center of the spread out cereal mix. Wrap and roll the candy and fruit, maneuvering the licorice to the center of the roll, so that the finished product resembles a sushi roll. Repeat with remaining rolls.

Place a sharp knife into a bowl of very warm water. Cut candy sushi with warm knife and arrange on a plate then serve.