Mochi Basic Recipe

Ingredients

• 15 oz can coconut milk
• 1 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 16 oz box sweet rice flour (e.g. Mochiko)
• 1/4 cup corn starch

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. In a large bowl whisk together coconut milk, water and vanilla.
3. Stir in baking powder, then sugar, then rice flour until well blended. 
4. Grease a 9 x 13-inch pan, then pour in mixture.
5. Cover pan the with foil (sealing completely).
6. Bake for 1 hour.
7. Remove foil and allow mochi to cool completely.
8. Dust a clean flat surface corn starch.
9. Using a plastic knife or spatula, gently separate edges from the pan (if it hasn’t already separated).
10. Turn the baking dish of mochi out onto the surface.
11. Cut mochi into bite-sized pieces.
12. Roll bite-sized pieces in corn starch or powdered cocoa (dust off excess).

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