Mochi with Choc Filling

Today I made a batch of mochis... been wanting to make a dessert but can't decide what to make. It was either macaroons (super difficult), cherry cheesecake, sugar cookies or this. I thought I would go for the lighter option to get myself out of this baking rut and try making things again.

I kind of wanna experiment and find the best mochi recipe and tweak it. The last batch of mochis I made were on Chinese New Year. This time round however, I think I have found the best recipe and will use this one from now on. I tweaked it a little. Below is the recipe. I adapted it from here.


Ingredients

Instructions
  1. Spread a microwave safe container with cooking oil using a brush
  2. In another bowl, mix flour and sugar.
  3. Add in water and food colouring and mix till smooth
  4. Transfer to oiled microwave safe container
  5. Microwave on high for 2 minutes. 
  6. Take out and check. If not firm, microwave for 20 seconds more. It should be translucent, and firm. Do not over cook. 
  7. Let mixture cool for 2 minutes or until cool enough to handle
  8. Dust a plate with cornflour.
  9. Pick out 1 tablespoon of the mixture at a time with the oiled plastic knife. Wrap it around the chocolate sphere and pinch to seal. Then roll the ball in the cornflour to coat the mochi. 
  10. Repeat until the mixture is finished (I had 6 mochis)


I made the recipe as a tester... with just 1 cup of glutinous rice flour and water each. So I only got 6 mochis. If you want, you can make 1 and a half cups each or even 2 cups each... as long as the ratio of water to glutinous rice flour is 1:1. I put the water a little less than the flour coz I want a doughy texture.

For the sugar, it's up to you. I put a quarter cup and it was not so sweet. The sweetness came from the chocolate filling.

Anyway, this was really fun to make... and very fun to eat too! It's delicious!

I hope I can make something interesting really soon. Thanks for reading!

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