How to make Mochi Ice Cream

This was already my second attempt at making Mochi Ice Cream. Making mochi ice cream was pretty messy, so I wasn't able to take a picture of all the steps in detail, so I apologize in advance.


You will need:

• 1 cup glutinous rice flour
• 1 1/3 cup white sugar
• 2/3 cup water
• 6 large scoops of Ice Cream (or as much as you can use to fill up the mochi dough)

Mix together the flour, sugar and water in a microwave safe bowl

Cover bowl loosely with Cling Wrap (leave room for breathing space) and microwave for 3 minutes on medium

In the meantime, I taped my dough preparation sheet to the counter and spread cornstarch generously all over it. This is a must because otherwise the dough will stick.

Take the mixture out of the microwave and stir thoroughly. To make life easier, I used my hand mixer until the mixture was smooth. Cover again with cling wrap and microwave for 2 minutes on medium. Repeat process (with decreasing amounts of time in the microwave) until mixture is glossy. Taste it to be sure it is done.

Pour out the (very) sticky mixture onto your floured surface and allow to cool for a while.

Dust cornstarch on top of the mixture and spread out the mixture until it's about 6 mm thin (Don't make it too thin or else it might break and leak). Divide the sheet to 6 pieces or more, depending on the size of your ice cream scoops. Scoop the ice cream onto the mochi dough sheet and pinch to seal (to keep it from leaking). You'll have to work pretty fast to keep the ice cream from melting and leaking all over your hands.To make life easier I cut up sheets of wax paper and put them onto a muffin pan, then put the mochi ice cream in it for somewhat uniform shapes while re-freezing

I froze my mochi ice cream overnight and brought some to work the next day. Enjoy! :)

Mine was Strawberry!

My office mate's mochi was filled with chocolate

Strawberry and Chocolate!

Just have fun with the whole process. The first time I tried making it the ice cream wasn't hard enough and the sheets were too thin so they started leaking... I ended up eating most of them on the spot! (Oops it leaked! *Nomnomnomnom*)

How to make Almond Muffins

A couple of months ago I tried a White Texas Sheet Cake recipe from allrecipes.com. The cake in itself was great, but the icing made it over-the-top sweet! So I decided to use it as a muffin recipe instead.

In a large saucepan, bring butter and water to a boil

I didn't include a picture of this in my saucepan since mine didn't look very pretty..

In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt

Add sugar to flour mixture and set aside

Mix together eggs, flavoring and sour cream

Remove butter mixture from heat and mix with flour and sour cream mixture

Add a cup of sliced almonds (or two if you'd like)

Scoop onto greased and floured muffin pans, or you could use muffin liners 

Bake at 375F for 20-25 minutes for the large muffins, and 15 minutes for the mini-muffins

Allow to cool for at least 15 minutes before you take them out of the pan. 

For the complete recipe, you can click the link at the beginning of this blog. Enjoy everyone!

How To Make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you're a fan of Reese's, you're going to love these! My son has been requesting cookies for a while now, so I decided to go with the classic chocolate chip, with a touch of peanut butter for the added indulgence.

To start off, you're going to need:

Wet Ingredients: Peanut Butter, Vanilla Extract, Egg, White Sugar, Brown Sugar, and Butter

Dry Ingredients: All-Purpose Flour, Oats, Baking Soda, and Salt

And of course, Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

Preheat your oven to 350 F. In a bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients and set aside.

In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar, then mix in the egg, peanut butter and vanilla

Combine with flour mixture. Do not over mix!

Fold in your chocolate chips. Again, do not overmix!

Scoop on to baking sheet and bake at 350F for 10-15 minutes.

And viola! Enjoy your Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies!

These cookies are extra chewy, perfect with a glass of milk or a cup of coffee. Enjoy!

Complete recipe is available at allrecipes.com.