It was a popular Japanese dessert back in the 80s and I was addicted to it. The rice dumpling is called mochi (餅), a traditional Japanese pounded rice cake made of mochigome (糯米) -a short-grain glutinous rice-known for its sticky, elastic, and chewy texture.Īs a mochi-loving child, I loved eating Yukimi Daifuku (雪見だいふく), which is a vanilla ice cream wrapped in gyuhi, a type of mochi. Mochi ice cream is small, round shaped confection made of sticky rice dumpling with an ice cream filling. More Delicious Mochi Recipes You’ll Love.Cooking Mochi with a Steamer or Microwave.Important Tips for Making Mochi Ice Cream.It’s relatively simple, so let’s make this sweet dessert truly your own today.

The original brand of mochi ice cream, Mikawaya, offers many creative flavors such as green tea, chocolate, and mango, making them so fun to eat.īut did you know you can make mochi ice cream at home? If you enjoy making ice cream at home, this is a super fun project to tackle as a family. In the US, you can find mochi ice cream at Costco, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and of course, at Asian grocery stores. Sweet little rice dumpling balls with creamy ice cream filling, mochi ice cream is the cool treat of the summer! After making its first debut in Hawaii in 1994, it didn’t take long for this unique and delicious treat to become the trendy frozen dessert item that took the world by storm. Imagine your kids smiling faces when they bite into their favorite ice cream inside the soft mochi shell. It is hard to work with such a hot ingredient though and you have to be careful not to burn your hand.Looking for a fun cooking project with your children? Try Mochi ice cream! The popular Japanese dessert is easier to make than you think. In fact, you have to be fast in order to work with the mochi while it is still hot and you can mold it and pinch it together. Seeing this post gave me the push I needed to finally try making my own mochi. This is exactly what I wanted to make! And the recipe even used the microwave to cook the mochi flour too. Then I found a post on green tea mochi with red bean paste filling on My Kitchen Snippets.

So I bought my mochiko flour and my red bean paste a while back, and every week I said I was going to try making the mochi. They come in cans and also in the plastic packages, which is what I ended up buying. You can probably find it at your local Asian market. I was able to buy the red bean paste at Ranch 99. After I began baking with matcha green tea powder, I came up with the idea of making green tea flavored mochi and stuffing it with the traditional red bean paste. I put it on my mental list of things I wanted to try making at some point. While I’ve made quite a few mochi cakes, such as strawberry mochi cake, blueberry mochi cake, cherry mochi cake and pumpkin mochi cake, I’ve never made the traditional mochi.Ī few years ago, I saw a recipe for making mochi that seemed really simple and fast and just required the use of a microwave. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that I’m quite obsessed with mochi and with matcha flavored things.

Green tea mochi