It's baked, not steamed, making it more cake-like than traditional mochi, but with a chewier sponge than your typical cake. It has a subtle flavor, which comes primarily from a blend of unsweetened ...

It owes its popularity to the flavorful combination of coconut milk and the sweet rice flour mochiko, with a subtle nuttiness ...

The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. Mochi-pounding at a shrine in Tokyo The resulting sticky rice ...