How to Make Mochi Ice Cream at Home

Mochi ice cream is a delicious dessert ball made with a soft dough from rice flour and a cold ice cream filling. It was invented by Japanese-American businesswoman and activist Frances Hashimoto.

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How to Make Mochi Ice Cream – Recipe

Ingredients

• 100 g Shiratamako or Mochiko (glutinous rice flour/sweet rice flour)
• 180 ml water
• 55 g granulated white sugar
• 1/3 cup corn starchice cream of your choice

Instructions

Combine Shiratamako and sugar in a medium bowl and whisk all together.

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Add water and mix well until combined. Then cover the bowl with some plastic wrap, put the bowl in the microwave and cook for 1 minute. Then you gather the dough and cook it about 30 more seconds until the dough is no longer white but slightly translucent.

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Cover the work surface with parchment paper and dust it generously with corn starch. Then transfer the cooked mochi on top.

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Roll the dough out very thinly, then cut circles.

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Place a plastic wrap on a plate and then mochi wrapper on top, then lay another layer of plastic wrapper down. Repeat for all wrappers.

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Now you’re ready to form mochi ice cream balls.

Put the mochi ice cream balls back into the freezer for a few hours.

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When you’re ready to serve, keep them outside for a little bit and the mochi will become soft and chewy again.