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DIY St. Patrick's Day Gold Bars

St. Patrick's Day is a week away, and Kathleen of Twig & Thistle created this super simple rice crispy treat idea. It's the perfect thing to pack in a kid's lunch as you send them off to school. Simply cut each treat to resemble rectangular gold bars, wrap them in parchment, and wrap them again in this lovely gold foil.

Since these treats are so easy to make, you can get the kids involved and make a few for their teacher or classmates.

Sweet Sushi!

Last week, I shared this incredibly realistic asparagus cake with you. Over the weekend, I came across another life-like treat on Pinterest. This bento box of dessert sushi by Jennifer McFadden of Death by Cucpake was made for a little girl's Asian-themed birthday party. Jennifer describes the treats on her Flickr page.

The rice is rice krispie treats, the shrimp is vanilla tootsie rolls that are handpainted with food coloring, the seaweed is fruit rollups, the tuna are airheads, and the guts of the rolls are gummy worms, twizzlers and other flavored tootsie rolls.

I think most kids would enjoy this bento box more than a sampling of California rolls and seaweed wraps. What do you think?

image: via Pinterest