The Best Mochi Ice Cream Recipe
Learn how to make Japanese mochi ice cream at home. Mochi ice cream seems like complicated recipe to make at home, but with this easy step by step recipe will make the best mochi. Mochi ice cream is a popular Japanese dessert, it is soft and chewy on the outside, and after this chewy bite you will get to cold and delicious ice cream. This recipe is a fun project to make with kids.
The Best Mochi Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup 160g Glutinous rice flour (sweet rice flour)
- ¼ cup 50g Sugar
- 1 cup 240ml Water
- ½ cup Cornstarch/Potato starch for dusting
- Ice cream of your choice
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS
- Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop out about 12 scoops of ice cream (about 15-20 grams each) onto baking tray lined with parchment paper or muffin tin lined with plastic wrap. Freeze while making the mochi.
- In a microwave safe bowl, mix rice flour and sugar. Add water and stir until smooth. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and microwave for 1 minute. Stir the mixture using a wet spatula, then microwave for another minute. Take the bowl out of the microwave, stir with a wet spatula and microwave for another 30 seconds.
- Dust your working surface with the starch, using a wet spatula, scrape the dough onto the cornstarch and dust the top of the dough with more starch.
- Roll the dough into 1/4-inch (1/2 cm) thick. place the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Take the dough out of the fridge and cut 3.5-inch (8-9 cm) circles. Make sure your circles are big enough to pinch the dough around the ice cream.
- Take one circle of dough and brush off the excess starch from both sides. Lay the circle on a piece of plastic warp, place one ball of ice cream in the middle, pinch the mochi around the ice cream, then use the plastic warp the shape a ball as shown in the video.
- Freeze mochi ice cream for at least 2 hours.
- When ready to serve, keep them outside for a few minutes.
WHICH RICE FLOUR SHOULD WE USE TO MAKE THE BEST MOCHI?
To make homemade mochi you need to use Glutinous rice flour (sweet rice flour). Do not use regular rice flour, it will not work. You can buy it here: Sweet Rice Flour WHAT IS THE BEST ICE CREAM TO USE FOR MOCHI? The beauty of this recipe, is that you can use any ice cream that you like. Here are some homemade ice cream recipes that will help you decide: https://www.thecookingfoodie.com/recipe/7-Easy-Ice-Cream-Recipes HOW TO STORE MOCHI ICE CREAM? Keep mochi ice cream, wrapped with plastic in the freezer up to 2-3 weeks.
Is there anything to do with the leftover after I make the circles?