Sushi Cake - Super easy and so delicious!

Make this awesome sushi cake and surprise your friends. Very easy to make and it's perfect for a brunch, baby shower, kids parties, or just because you are craving it.

INGREDIENTS

3 cups of rinsed and drained short grain rice (I used Originario rice)
1/3 cup of rice vinegar
2 avocados
700gr of surimi
2 tablespoons of Mayonnaise
800 gr cream cheese
1/2 teaspoon of shichimi togarashi - optional
1 1/2 cups of deseeded and shredded cucumber
1 1/2 cups of shredded carrots
Furikake of your choosing (dry Japanese seasoning for rice) - optional
Sesame seeds for decoration - optional

DIRECTIONS

1. Add rice to rice cooker or pan. Measure the water that you normally use to cook your rice and replace from that water 1/3 cup of the water with 1/3 cup of rice vinegar and add it to the rice. Cook rice.

1. Once rice is cooked fluff it and let it cool.

2. Unroll the surimis and layer them on top of each other.

1. Cut them lengthwise once and then julienne.

1. Add them to a bowl. Add Mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons of cream cheese and the 1/2 teaspoon of shichimi togarashi (optional), mix it all together.

1. Line the bottom of a detachable cake pan with parchment paper.

2. Add a thin layer of cooked rice. (if the rice is too sticky to handle wet the plastic spoon or your hands to press the rice down)

1. Add layer of surimi mix.

1. Add layer of deseeded and shredded cucumber.

1. Add layer of cream cheese.

1. Add shredded carrots.

1. Add sliced avocados.

1. add another layer of surimi mix.

1. Add thin layer of rice and press all the ingredients down to compact them.

1. To unmold run a thin knife around the edges of the cake, flip the cake on desired plate and unlatch the sides.

2. Carefully take the bottom of the cake pan off and delicately remove the parchment paper off.

3. Decorate as desired.