Chocolate Mochi Cake

Since I loaded up with my stock of Giradelli cocoa powder from SF, I need to use up my old stash in order to open up the new can. I picked a recipe online from Petite Chef, checked my barely empty fridge that I took effort to empty out before my trip, and started to go for it. I have changed a coconut milk to condensed milk as that is what I have got. It worked! So here is what I have done.

4 Tablespoons of butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg, lightly beaten

1/4 C dutch-processed cocoa powder

2.2 oz. mochiko (sweet rice, or glutinous flour)

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

6 tablespoons evaporated milk 

 I have used a silicon mini muffin mold so there is no need to spray and prep the pans.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees C.

Cream butter and sugar together with a hand held mixer. Add egg to incorporate.

Sieve together cocoa powder, mochiko and baking powder. Add the sieved dry ingredients to the butter mixture in 2 batches and mix with the mixer until just binded. Add evaporated milk and mix until just incorporated.

Divide batter equally into 12 mini muffin tins and bake for 18 minutes. (A few more minutes for a silicon pan) Cakes should spring back with a finger test. Rest for 5 minutes in the pan before demolding.

Mocha Mochi

"What? Tomorrow?"

I am going on vacation starting tomorrow and guess what? A friend's birthday happens to be tomorrow. And being such a nice friend we asked him to deliver us to the airport, not knowing it is going to be his birthday, at 7 in the morning. That means we made him to wake up at 6am on his birthday. How wonderful we are us his friend? Now he has a long day to celebrate his birthday!

I was going to try the matcha mochi cupcakes recipe to make some breakfast to eat at the airport, but since the birthday boy requested his belated birthday cake to be mocha flavour, I decided to switch the matcha into mocha. (This is so not recommended as I haven't even tried the original recipe yet.)

I haven't try these little guys yet, but they look cute and promising. Here is what I did:

original recipe from The Humble Bean

151g mochiko (1/3 box)1/3 cup sugar
1/3 tsp. baking powder
1/4  tsp. instant expresso powder
1/2 tsp. cocoa powder
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup oil
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Whisk all the dry ingredients in a medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl, combine the eggs, milk, and oil. Add dry ingredients and stir until incorporated. Spoon batter in a muffin pan lined with baking cups and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Makes 6