Mochi recipe

Mochi in 5 minutes? Yes, please! Daifuku mochi has to be our FAVOURITE Japanese snack of all time. Sweet sticky rice is wrapped around red bean paste to form soft as a pillow dessert bites you’ll want to make again and again just the japanese food served in japanese restaurant.

Mochi is the traditionnal small cakes that featured in most japanese games and japanese anime

mochi recette

Learn anything about japanese mochi cakes

Mochi cake is a traditional Japanese Style gourmet rice cake cookies. Popular in Taiwan and Japan. This dessert is especially popular during the New Year because it symbolizes all these wonderful ideas about wishing each other good health and fortune

The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice.

The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed.

Families traditionally celebrate New Year by cooking a vegetable broth in which they heat the mochi.

Why We Love This

The sweet bean filling and chewy texture of daifuku mochi gets us every time. We would naughtily have these almost every day in Japan!

Being ready in 5 minutes and only needing 5 ingredients is a win for us. They make fantastic desserts to impress guests, especially if you need something last minute and have everything on hand.

Be mindful and careful that mochi is extremely thick and chewy, so it is very important to take small bites and chew very well to avoid choking—a common hazard in Japan, despite the country's love of mochi.