The recipe we used is this:
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup corn starch
Boil the sugar and water, and then remove from heat to whisk in the rice flour. It will turn into a gloopy gross-looking hot mess. Do not taste at this point! It WILL burn your tongue. Return to low heat and stir constantly for 7-10 minutes. For this you will want to switch to a spoon because your arm will want to fall off if you try to whisk it all that time. You will want the mixture to have a shiny appearance when you take it off the heat.
Cover a smooth working surface with corn starch, and dump the mochi mixture out onto it. Let cool. And I mean cool - if you try to put ice cream on warm mochi you will get a big mess!
Pics taken with the point-and-shoot b/c my camera man was on hand model duty :P |
(A step to make this a bit easier, especially if you are a one-person show - pre-freeze little balls of ice cream on parchment paper. They are harder and don't melt quite as quickly as if you scoop them one by one.)
(They don't usually look this melty - we did this on a day that it was over 70 degrees out, so we had the windows open.. Didn't really think about the icecream melting - oops!)
Enjoy!