(This is part of a series I wrote on ice cream making. See full list of posts here.)
Hello!! Sorry for the lack of posting lately! We just closed on our new home today! It’s been a little stressful past few days but we did it! We put an offer on the home while we were vacationing in Hawaii a few weeks ago and we closed less than a month later. We’ll move in less than 2 weeks!! We can’t believe how fast everything happened, its been a whirlwind. We are super excited to be homeowners again! I already claimed the linen closet for all my craft supplies!
Speaking of being in Hawaii, while we were staying in Honolulu, we hit up my favorite mochi icecream store Bubbies. If you have never been, you GOT TO GO!!! They have the biggest assortment of mochi icecream flavors, some fancy flavors, too! And they are so cute! They come in fun colors:
We went there a few nights for dessert after dinner and its always a refreshing treat! The mochi is really thin, soft and chewy. I decided that the lychee and guava were my favorite flavors. Bubbies only has store locations in Hawaii, but if you can’t make it out to Honolulu anytime soon, you can also order them online and they will ship them to you. I’ve also seen Bubbies sold at some Wholefoods, too!
Since I have a freezer full of icecream flavors and recently learned how to make mochi for frozen yogurt, I decided to try to make some homemade mochi icecream!
First, using a cookie-dough scooper, I scooped out different flavors of icecream and re-froze them in the freezer so that they would be nice and firm when I worked with them:
While I was waiting for the icecream to freeze up, I used the same mochi recipe that I used before and rolled out the mochi cake as thin as possible on a silicon mat (sprinkled generously with cornstarch so that it wouldn’t be too sticky). I cut out the mochi wrappers with a circular cookie cutter:
Then I quickly wrapped each icecream ball with the mochi wrapper and placed them in cupcake wrappers. Serve immediately! (You might be able to freeze them and serve later but I’m not sure how the mochi wrapper would thaw.)
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I really enjoyed your ice cream posts. You made it look so fun. Congratulations on your hew house!
thanks so much for letting me know, chrissi!
That ice cream mochi shop sounds amazing! And I’m glad you had better luck making ice cream mochi than I did!
Wow, Ilene! I’m totally gonna try this. Hey, let’s have an ice cream party! I’ve been making up some of my own flavors
these look awesome!! i’m going to try it this week!
I just found your blog (via Pinterest, of course!) and had to stop and agree that mochi ice cream is delicious. My grandma usually gets some for New Year’s but I never would have thought of making some. And since we got an ice cream maker, I’ll have to look into making some soon! I’ll definitely be checking out your ice cream series, too. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, my goodness, I’m going to have to make these! My sister became addicted to mochi while we were in Japan and we can never find any that are the same. Next on my to do list!