Heart-Shaped Strawberry & Chocolate Mochi
- 4 Strawberries
- 25 grams Shiratamako
- 1 Cocoa powder
- 1 Strawberry powder
- 35 grams White chocolate
- 1 tbsp Heavy cream
- 25 grams Sugar
- 50 ml Water
- Remove the stems from the strawberries and cut them into heart shapes.
- Add the cream to bowl and heat it up a little over a bain-marie.
- Add in the chopped white chocolate and mix it with the cream until it melts.
- To make the mixture easier to handle, chill the mixture in the bowl over some cold water.
- When the mixture thickens up, remove it from the bowl.
- Split the mixture into 4 portions and place a portion on top of a sheet of cling film.
- Place a strawberry on top of the mixture, then wrap the mixture around the strawberry, and place it in the refrigerator to chill.
- Add the shiratamako to a heat-resistant bowl and gradually pour in the water to dissolve it.
- Add in the sugar and mix.
- Lightly wrap the bowl and heat it up in the microwave for 1 minute.
- Take the bowl out of the microwave, mix the mixture well with a spatula, then return it to the microwave for a further 1 minute.
- Stir the mixture well again.
- Add half of this mochi dough to a tray filled with strawberry powder, and half into a tray filled with cocoa.
- Dust your fingertips with the powder that you are currently using and once each piece of mochi dough is covered in powder, break each piece into half again.
- Then leave the powdered mochi dough to cool.
- Take the white chocolate strawberries out of the refrigerator and wrap 2 of the strawberries with chocolate mochi dough and 2 with strawberry mochi dough to complete.
strawberries, shiratamako, cocoa, strawberry powder, white chocolate, heavy cream, sugar, water
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/146539-heart-shaped-strawberry-chocolate-mochi (may not work)