Dessert Sushi, followed by a upset stomach

Last night, Elyse and I finally reached the last episode of Gilmore Girls. In honor of such an auspicious occasion, we decided to make dessert sushi, like in an earlier episode in season 7.

So we deconstructed the basic sushi roll, and substituted our own similar ingredients.

We couldn't use seaweed - that would be gross. So logically we used Fruit Roll-ups. We debated using some form of rice pudding, or coconut rice, but we decided that substituting was really the best way to go. We crumbled up Oreos and added a little whipped cream to give it the right consistency - voilà, perfect rice proxy.

Our first rolls were a bit messy - we were just getting the hang of it, after all. My first was Twix and Ande's Mint, rolled in an Orange Cherry Fruit Roll-up. But Elyse's was Twix with Reese's, rolled in a Tropical Tie-Dye Fruit Roll-up.

The rolling of the first didn't work out so well. We didn't leave enough roll-up to stick itself closed.

So when it came to slicing, they weren't very tight. Mine barely made a roll at all. The Twix/Mint Cherry Orange roll was VERY odd. The mintness, and the sharpness of the cherry didn't mix well. However, Elyse's Twix/Reese's Tropical Tie-Dye roll was excellent. Almost smoothie-like.

We decided that the best way to get a proper roll was to use two roll-ups stuck together for greater length. Our next roll was an M&M/Junior mint Strawberry roll-up roll.

It looked very nice and the M&M was a nice amount of crunch, but mint does not really work with our format, we decided.

Our final roll was a Twix/Reese's/M&M Cherry Orange roll, and it was excellent. But at this point we started to get a bit queasy, and we were in the last episode of Gilmore Girls, so we really needed to pay attention.

Of course after that, we were so wired up on sugar that we watched half of Newsies before heading to bed.

Yum.