Recipe: Perfect Spring Colored Cherry Blossom Mochi

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Recipe: Perfect Spring Colored Cherry Blossom Mochi Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Spring Colored Cherry Blossom Mochi. What Does Sakura Mochi Taste Like? Sakura Mochi is a flavored traditional seasonal wagashi (Japanese sweet) enjoyed throughout Japan during the spring season. It's flavored with salt-preserved sakura (cherry blossom) flowers and wrapped in a cherry blossom leaf.

It is wrapped in a pickled sakura leaf which is edible.

This cheery blossom mochi is a popular mochi eaten during the early spring.

Make this now and hope spring brings the warmth sooner!

You can have Spring Colored Cherry Blossom Mochi using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Spring Colored Cherry Blossom Mochi

  1. You need 40 grams of Shiratamako.

  2. You need 40 grams of White flour.

  3. Prepare 5 grams of Sugar.

  4. You need 100 ml of Water.

  5. Prepare 1 of drop Red food coloring.

  6. You need 120 grams of Anko.

This mochi is so pretty in pink matching the cherry blossom flower color and it is wrapped with a cherry blossom leaf.

Let's make two different Sakura Mochi!

Unchanged in its simplicity and taste throughout generations, the annual tradition of enjoying sakura-mochi under the cherry blossom trees is a grounding and comforting event for many individuals.

An extra-sweet pink colored mochi, sakura mochi is sold in spring for hanami, cherry blossom viewing season.

Spring Colored Cherry Blossom Mochi instructions

  1. Place shiratamako in a bowl. With a whisk, add and mix a small amount of water at a time until smooth..

  2. When all the lumps are gone, add the flour and sugar, then mix well. Add a drop of red food coloring, and mix until the batter becomes pinkish..

  3. In a non-stick skillet, pour the batter in to make an oblong shape. When the surface dries, turn over and cook the other side. Make 6..

  4. Form 20 g of anko into a barrel shape. Place the anko on the mochi skin, 1/3 of the way from the end closest to you. Wrap it and it is done..

Usually containing red bean, it is wrapped in a salty sakura blossom leaf which is also edible, contrasting with the sweetness.

Learn more about hanami season in How to Celebrate Cherry Blossom Season in Japan.

Wagashi are Japanese sweets with fascinating flavors and designs, intended to embody the four seasons.

The prototypical wagashi for spring is sakuramochi.

Sakuramochi is a traditional wagashi inspired by the season of the cherry blossoms.