Get Your Japanese Mochi Questions AnsweredTake a look at these Japanese Mochi, the most well known and favorite Japanese Desserts.
Japanese cakes and sweets are great for satisfying your sweet tooth without harming your health. They have a very subtle sweet taste. Japanese in general don't like sugary desserts and cakes. Westerners are unaccustomed to cakes not being very sweet, but they are actually very good.
These Mochi rice cakes are made out of rice flour – Mochiko, so they are a very good substitute for those suffering from Gluten Allergy. They are stuffed with sweet fillings such as sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans. Mochi Japanese cakes are also called Daifuku and they come in many flavors – melon, strawberry or other fruit versions.
Mochi Rice/Daifuku cakes are covered in a fine coating of starch to keep them from sticking to each other. Mochi colors are white, pale green or pale pink. The Japanese desserts can be the colors of Autumn in Japan and the shape of maple leaves, or brighter pinkish colors during Cherry Blossom season.
How To Make MochiMaking Mochi at home is not as complicated as you might think.Here you can find Japanese cake recipes with pictures, including Mochi Recipes. 
Mochi Ice cream
The Mochi Rice dough is filled with an ice cream center. Popular flavors among the Japanese include
Matcha green tea
and red bean paste (azuki). There's a special Mochi maker, The Basic - Tastes & Flavors of Mochi.
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which practically does the work for you, and the Mochi Rice cakes turn out even better than doing it by hand. 