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Easy Homemade Daifuku Mochi

Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time30 mins
Total Time40 mins
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Asian, Japanese
Keyword: Daifuku mochi, Mochi, Rice Cakes
Servings: 12 pieces

Ingredients

For the mochi

  • 100 g Glutinous rice flour
  • 180 ml Water room temperature
  • 50 g Sugar
  • Corn or Potato starch for dusting

Easy Matcha Buttercream

  • 28 g Pasteurized egg whites room temperature
  • 113 g Icing sugar sifted
  • 113 g Unsalted butter room temperature
  • 1 heaping tsp Matcha powder

Strawberry Cheesecake Filling

  • 150 g Cream cheese room temperature
  • 25 g Icing sugar sifted
  • 3-4 pieces Strawberries cut into small cubes

Instructions

Making the mochi

  • In a microwave safe bowl, combine glutinous rice flour and sugar.
  • Add water and mix until there are no more lumps.
  • Cover the bowl loosely with cling wrap and microwave on the highest setting for one minute.
  • Depending on the microwave, you might need to do this in 3-4 blasts. Mix well with a wet spatula in between blasts.
  • Cook until the mixture has become translucent.
  • Dust a parchment paper very generously with corn or potato starch.
  • Turn out the cooked mochi mixture onto the parchment paper and let cool for 2 minutes.
  • Dust more starch onto the mochi mixture and flatten it to around 1 cm thickness (using a heavily dusted rolling pin will help to get an even thickness).
  • Cut out the mochis into 12 pieces. Dust off the excess starch of the surface of the mochis with a pastry brush (or pick them up one by one and gently clap a couple of times to dust off excess).
  • Fill the mochis with about one heaping teaspoon of filling.
  • Gather the ends of the mochi towards the middle and pinch to seal everything.
  • Turn it upside down.
  • Enjoy! ;)

Making the matcha buttercream filling

  • This recipe will yield more than what you need. You can half the recipe.
  • With a handmixer, mix pasteurized egg whites and sifted icing sugar on high setting.
  • Divide the butter into 3 blocks and add each block into the mixture, mixing very well in between each addition.
  • Sift the matcha powder into the mixture, so that there is no big lumps.
  • Mix on the highest setting for another 2 minutes.
  • Done! ;)

Making the strawberry cheesecake filling

  • This recipe will yield more than what you need. You can half the recipe.
  • With a spatula mix the cream cheese and sifted icing sugar until very well combined.
  • Add the cubed strawberries. Mix well.
  • Done! ;)