Multi-filling Mochi

Mochi is a traditional food made of glutinous rice. Steamed, the glutinous rice will be pound until it become sticky and elastic. The smashed glutinous rice can be made into rice cake, stuffed rice ball with different ingredients, like rice flours. Multi-filling mochi contains fillings with different texture and characters. For example, powder fillings, like peanut powder, sesame powder, bean pastes, taro paste, sweet potato paste and more are the most commonly used. Solid fillings, like fruits, symmered chestnut and so on. Also, special fillings, like cream cheese, custard, ice cream or jam are also widely used for daifuku mochi. Powder fillings are dry while ice cream and custard are unstable, which are difficult to stuffed and form. Luckily, industrial mochi filling and forming machine can make mochi with multiple fillings and diverse ingredients.