Recipe: Yummy Butter Mochi

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Butter Mochi. Butter mochi is of Hawaiian derivation and shouldn't be viewed as the same type of "mochi" that you may have had with your Japanese friends. It is in its nature to be more "cake"ish and is meant to be eaten in squares like brownies or lemon squares. So, while you are correct that this is not "mochi", it IS Butter Mochi.

Mochi is a traditional Japanese rice pastry made from pounded rice that's usually eaten during the Japanese New Year.

Butter mochi, also known as mochi cake, has the irresistible chewiness of a piece of mochi, but in a cake-like form.

It is a classic Hawaiian dessert that is very unique because of its bouncy, slightly crispy texture.

You can have Butter Mochi using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Butter Mochi

1. Prepare 1 box of Mochiko Flour.

2. It’s 3 cup of Sugar.

3. Prepare 3 tsp of Baking Powder.

4. It’s 2 cup of Milk.

5. It’s 5 of Eggs.

6. It’s 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract.

7. You need 1 block of Butter.

Butter mochi is a local Hawaiian treat, somewhat like a cross between a butter cake and Japanese mochi.

It's sweet and chewy, with a nice golden top.

It's usually baked in a tray and then cut into squares, like brownies.

Butter mochi cake is very easy to make, and all you need to do is: Mix & Bake!

Butter Mochi instructions

1. Melt block of butter and cool.

2. Preheat oven to 350°.

3. Lightly grease a 13x9 pan.

4. Combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

5. Combine milk, eggs and vanilla extract in a separate bowl.

6. Add melted butter to wet ingredients (if still warm, slowly add butter while mixing).

7. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix well until there are no lumps.

8. Pour batter into 13x9 pan and bake for 1 hour.

The mochi butter cake can be left in the pan to cool, or unmolded and cooled on a wire rack.

Mochi is a Japanese pounded rice dessert and you can find it in various flavors and sometimes stuffed with candy, fruit, or ice cream.

Heck, Whole Foods has a mochi bar in most of their stores.

This Butter Mochi recipe is just mochi with A LOT of butter and sweetened with coconut cream.

Hawaiian butter mochi is an easy dessert made with coconut and butter in a rice flour base.