How to Make Mochi Ice Cream
Making your own mochi ice cream is a perfect and delicious way to meld together two delicious desserts: mocha and ice cream. This delicious treat takes around 30 minutes to complete and is perfect if you need to make a dessert to impress.
What You'll Need:
- Ice cream
- ¾ cups of water
- 1 cup glutinous-rice flour
- Glass bowl
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- ¼ cup sugar
- Corn flour
- Mixing spoon
- Plastic wrap
- Air tight container
- Cutting board
- Allow the ice cream to soften.
- Scoop softened ice cream into 10 round balls.
- Refreeze ice cream until hard.
- Combine water and the glutinous rice flour in a glass bowl.
- Mix until it forms a paste.
- Add vanilla and sugar into the paste until dissolved.
- Cover glass bowl with plastic wrap and microwave for around two minutes.
- Remove and stir well.
- Recover glass bowl and microwave for an additional 30 seconds.
- Remove plastic wrap and stir well.
- Place a sheet of plastic wrap over your cutting board.
- Cover with a generous dusting of corn flour.
- Allow the dough to cool and place onto board.
- Divide dough into 10 pieces.
- Flatten each piece of dough and wrap around the balls of ice cream.
- Place into air tight container and re-freeze.
Additional Information
- Before serving, allow the mochi ice cream to thaw slightly.
- Not all flavors taste well with mochi. Choose flavors such as green tea, coffee, vanilla or chocolate.
- For a lower sugar content, substitute sugar with Splenda.