Umeboshi Onigiri???

So far I haven't been able to develop a taste for umeboshi.

Umeboshi is a Japanese form of pickled plum. It's a traditional onigiri filling and it's super sour. So sour that I can't even stand a tiny piece of one. I will keep trying to develop a taste for it though, I haven't given up.

But in the meantime, I had a silly notion last night that I would make some umeboshi onigiri out of rice krispy squares. This wasn't an original idea, I was inspired by this website.

Once they were made, I put them in some nice white boxes so that BF could bring some to a friend's place where he was having lunch today. I think they turned out pretty cute.
I just used the basic rice krispy square recipe printed inside the box. While it was still hot (and working very quickly so it didn't cool down before I was done) I pressed a layer of rice in the bottom of my small triangle onigiri mold (about 1 1/2" on each side) and placed a sour cherry candy in the middle. I like these candies because they are sour like an umeboshi and look sort of like one (okay, not really, but they look more like an umeboshi than say a gummi worm does ) and they're really yummy! Then I placed another layer of rice krispies around the candy to hold it in place.

After that I closed the mold just like you would with an onigiri. It's important not to fill it too full because cereal doesn't have a lot of give to it, and the candies get dented and scratched.

I melted some semi-sweet chocolate squares in the microwave (30 seconds and stir, repeat until melted) and used a butter knife to spread it around the outer edge of half of the 'onigiri'. I placed the chocolate coated ones on wax paper and put them in the fridge to harden the chocolate.

I had some Wilton candy boxes from Michael's (I think they're the half pound size. I threw out the tag, so I can't be sure) that I lined with wax paper. I used sushi grass paper to separate the 'onigiri'. For decorations I made some 'pickled ginger' by rolling a piece of cherry ribbon candy and filled a fish shaped soy sauce bottle with chocolate syrup.

I had intended to make 'wasabi' with a mound of green fondant, but I ran out of time.

On the top of the box I wrote "Mmm....onigiri umeboshi" with a black Sharpie.

So it was kind of silly. But it was fun :)