Butter Mochi Cake Recipe

 Japanese Cake Recipe – Hawaiian Cake Recipe – Gluten-Free Cake Recipe

Butter Mochi Cake is a Japanese Rice Cake made with rice flour.  The texture is much different than the typical American cake.  The cake, when baked, has a glutinous texture as it is soft, squishy, and chewy with a mild buttery taste – it is very good!  Butter Mochi Cake is very popular in the Hawaiian Islands as many Japanese settled there.  This is a basic recipe for Mochi Cake.  The cake can be made in various flavors.

This recipe was shared with me by Kim Kono of Portland, Oregon.  Kim gave my daughter, Nancy Hartman, and myself a cooking class in making this cake.

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Butter Mochi Cake

Butter Mochi Cake Recipe:
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 15 mins
 
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Japanese
Keyword: Butter Mochi Cake Recipe, Japanese Cake Recipe
Ingredients
  • 3 cups superfine sugar 
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
  • 4 cups milk*
  • 4 large eggs, beaten
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 4 cups sweet rice flour (Mochiko)**
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F.  Place oven rack in middle of oven.  Lightly spray a 13- x 9-inch baking dish with vegetable oil spray.

  2. In the bowl of your electric mixer, cream together the sugar and butter until well combined.  Add the milk, beaten eggs, and vanilla extract; continue beating until combined.  Add the baking powder and the sweet rice flour (Mochiko) until batter is combined and smooth.

  3. Pour the mochi batter into the prepared baking dish.

  4. Mochi Cake Unbaked


  5. Baked Mochi Cake

  6. Bake approximately 1 hour (60 minutes) until the top of the cake is golden and cake begins to pull away from sides of pan.  Remove from oven and let cool on a cooking rack.

  7. Cut into small squares to serve.

Recipe Notes

SweetRiceFlour2* The Hawaiian versions of this cake usually use coconut milk.

** Mochiko is available in Asian stores and some large supermarkets. It comes in 1-pound (16 ounce) boxes (see photo on right).

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Cake    Gluten free    Hawaiian Recipes    Japanese Recipes   

Comments and Reviews

One Response to “Butter Mochi Cake Recipe”

  1. Lisa

    This recipe is a great gluten-free, homemade option for something with a mochi consistency. When I made it, I used only half of the milk called for. I did use a little less sugar as well.

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