Mochi Bites (Japanese Sweet Rice Cake)
Mochi is glutinous rice cake, it’s very simple and very light especially if you use green tea or just water instead of coconut milk.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Glutinous rice flour (8 oz)
- 1 ¼ cups Sugar white, brown, muscovado or coconut sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ¾ cup Water
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Coconut Milk or green tea
- 1 teaspoon Food color and/or flavor pandan or ube food flavor, (optional)
- ¼ cup Rice flour toasted; for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Grease a 8-inch square pan with coconut oil or butter
- Whisk together the glutinous rice flour, sugar and baking powder, set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix water, vanilla, coconut milk and food color / flavor.
- Mix into the glutinous rice flour mixture.
- Pour into the prepared pan.
- Cover the pan with foil and bake for 35-40 minutes. Let mochi cool completely
- Heat a pan over medium heat; add the rice flour and toast for about 5 minutes until lightly browned. Keep on stirring so rice flour will not burn
- dust a cutting board or a clean surface with toasted rice flour, put the remaining flour in a small bowl or plate and set aside.
- Turn mochi onto the rice flour-dusted cutting board or surface
- Cut into bite size pieces; use a plastic knife or dough cutter dusted with rice flour
- Roll the bite-size pieces of mochi in toasted rice flour. Serve with tea or coffee.
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