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Day #254 Mochi “Ice Cream” Complete Recipe pgs. 218-219 entertaining in the raw

April 3, 2010

What a disaster!!! I have to say, this recipe turned out the worst out of all the recipes, I have made. Not the taste, but forming the Mochi didn’t work at all. I followed the directions, but I guess these just are not my specialty. I even took pictures while I was forming them. Oh I am so upset, I was hoping that these would be presentable to my family tomorrow for Easter Dinner. I am sure they won’t mind, but they don’t look anything like the Mochi in M.K.’s book.
This is how I did it.
First, I put coconut dust on the dry cutting board, maybe this was my first mistake, I didn’t want to use oat flour. I usually follow the recipes exactly unless I don’t have the correct ingredients, but this time I guess I shouldn’t have substituted. After dusting the cutting board, I turned out the frozen mochi.

I cut six 4 x 4-inch pieces into the mochi sheet.

I used coconut floured hands, and pressed the square down until it was thin. I then placed the goji berries ice cream on the square. All of this was simple. I thought things were going great…

Then I attempted to form the square around the ice cream and I tried to form a ball, it began to split and crack and ice cream started to seep out. I demolished the first one, then I tried a second time with a bit less ice cream.

As you can see, this looks nothing like mochi. It looks like a poorly made biscuit.
I then made the Acai flavor ice cream mochi. I really tried to make these perfect, but to no avail!


2 out of 6 mochi turned out with all the contents in the mochi sheet. The other 4, well, that is another story, the ice cream is seeping out and they are a disaster. I tried to salvage the two, so they could be presentable for the photos, but no luck.

Well, out of all the recipes I have made this was the one I managed to sabatoge. Better luck next time.
**I didn’t find lemongrass, so I didn’t make the ice cream.
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“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” ~Oscar Wilde