Name: Sushi Sugar Cookies for International Sushi Day
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 15
Cuisine: Dessert
Ingredients: Your favorite no spread sugar cookie recipe; Circle & triangle cookie cutters; 1 cup of shredded coconut; White icing; 1/8 cup black fondant; Black icing for triangle pieces; Mini M&M’s or colorful chocolate candies for topping

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These Sushi Sugar Cookies are so delicious and adorable!! Your whole family will enjoy these unique cookies, and they’re perfect for a movie night or birthday party! We also think these homemade cookies are perfect for National Sushi Day on June 18th!

We love these cookies for a movie night because they’re so cute and fun to decorate!! While we we thinking they’d be perfect for Finding Nemo or The Little Mermaid, we weren’t sure if that was in good taste — fish being the main characters and all. HA! You can also grab printable movie night tickets here!

With that said – we’d eat them!

Sushi Featured in Movies (and TV)

The Sopranos loved their sushi! Tony and Carmela’s favorite place to eat at the beginning of season 6 is a sushi place!
Friends – Do you remember the episode where Rachel & Phoebe are taking self defense classes? Ross talks about “unagi” — or awareness in his mind. Rachel quips back, “salmon skin roll.”
The Breakfast Club – Molly Ringwald brings sushi as her lunch!
Bladerunner – This movie features futuristic sushi!

We also served these as a dessert for our Karate Kid movie night!

You could also serve sushi cookies with a fish themed movie like:

What You Need to Make Sugar Sushi Cookies

Your favorite no spread sugar cookie recipe
Circle & triangle cookie cutters
1 cup of shredded coconut
White icing
1/8 cup black fondant
Black icing for triangle pieces
Mini M&M’s or colorful chocolate candies for topping

How to Make Sushi Cookies

First, you’ll want to make your favorite sugar cookie recipe – whether homemade or using store bought dough! Cut half into circles and the other half into triangles. Let fully cool.

Now, you’re ready to make sushi cookies! To prepare the 1st round sushi cookie, ice the middle of the cookie with white icing and dip in coconut.

Take rolled out fondant or black icing and ice around the outer edge of the cookie. Place 3 colorful candies in the middle on top.

For the 2nd type of circular sushi, you’ll ice the outer edge of the cookie with white icing and dip in coconut. Then, use the black fondant or icing and ice in the middle of the cookie. Top with colorful chocolate candy on top.

The triangle cookies are your rice cookies. You’ll want to ice entire triangle with white icing and dip in coconut. Add a dollop of black icing or fondant to the top.

15+ Cookies