Chocolate Hello Kitty mochi
Around the same time that I purchased my Hello Kitty rice ball maker set and Happy Face rice ball maker set, I also purchased a Hello Kitty silicone cupcake/muffin pan mold which I also found on eBay.
Since then I’ve been trying to decide what to bake with it. I knew I wanted to bake some sort of cupcake. I wanted to bake chocolate cupcakes, but I didn’t have time to try any of the new chocolate cupcake recipes I have on my to-do list. I know with silicone molds, often if you try to bake something light colored, there may be unevenness in how the batter browns. With the Hello Kitty face being the most important part of these molds, I didn’t want to use a light colored batter, which is why I thought of chocolate.
While reading JustJenn’s site, she blogged about a recent visit to the Sanrio Cafe in Hawaii, where she came across Hello Kitty mochi. The Hello Kitty mochi looked very similar to the size and shape of the molds I had bought. And then I realized I could try to make my own Hello Kitty mochi.
I used the recipes I used for my chocolate mochi seashells and stuck them in my Hello Kitty molds. I kept my fingers crossed, and was quite happy with the result. Each Hello Kitty face popped out quite easily from the molds.
These were so cute I actually had a really hard time eating them. Usually, I use dutch processed cocoa powder for my mochi recipe. But since I moved, I haven’t fully unpacked. I was only able to find regular baking cocoa powder. So the mochi came out quite a bit lighter, but they still tasted fine. I usually put chocolate chips in my chocolate mochi too, but I omitted them here because I didn’t want to mess up the faces.
If you don’t have Hello Kitty molds you can make mochi in a baking pan like I did with my Chocolate Mochi squares.
Chocolate Hello Kitty Mochi
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 (16-oz) box Mochiko flour
- 1 cup dutch processed cocoa or regular unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 (12-oz) can evaporated milk
- 3/4 cup coconut milk
Instructions
- Preheat over to 350°F. Cream the butter with sugar.
- Beat in the evaporated milk and coconut milk to the butter/sugar mixture. Beat eggs into the mixture. Beat in the rice flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanilla.
- Spoon batter into cupcake molds, about 2/3 full. Bake in oven for about 25 minutes, until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool completely before serving.
Hi from the UK! I am thinking of getting 1, or perhaps 2 of these moulds. Does the recipe as written fill up 4 or 8 of the cavities?
Looks really tasty BTW! Can’t wait to try 🙂
J
The recipe makes enough batter to make eight.
This is so cute! :3 I ordered a Rilakkuma silicone mold (link is here: https://www.shopkawaii.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=KY-90701) so I’m just wondering since it’s bigger if the recipe would work the same. Thank you for any help!
You’ll probably just need to bake longer, but other than that it should work!
Hi!!
These are super cute! Just wondering, where do you buy your dutch processed cocoa powder in SD?
I actually buy mine elsewhere. I’m not sure where they sell it in SD. They might sell it at the Do It with Icing store. I usually get mine on Amazon or at the Surfas store in LA (which also has a website but you would have to pay for shipping.) Let me know if you need more information!
So cute! I just bought these and one that has smaller faces and a cutter for toast/cookies
Aww the small ones are so cute! I haven’t seen that. I’ve seen the toast one. Been thinking about getting it.
Hi and greetings from Sydney Australia
I love this post and was wondering where you bought the Hello Kitty moulds from.
I’d love to make these for my daughter’s second birthday!
Thanks,
Debbie
I bought them on ebay. There are a lot of sellers selling them. Hope this helps!
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I hope you enjoy this recipe. I know I did. =)
These look amazing! Three of my favorite things combined into one: chocolate, mochi and of course Hello Kitty! Thanks so much for sharing this recipe : )
The recipe tastes good with or without the molds. It was actually hard for me to eat these Hello Kittys. hehe.
Thanks CC. I think my bakeware collection has gotten too big..I need to stop buying stuff!
Kirbie, I love mochi and Hello Kitty (reminds me of my childhood)! I LOVE that you put the two together. I’m going to have to try this recipe (minus the cute Hello Kitty molds since I don’t have them). Thanks for sharing!
hi kirbie – omg, so cute cute cute!!!! i love it!
you have the best collection of bakeware ever! 🙂
Oh that’s not good. This was the first time I used it and it released fine for this mochi recipe. I turned them upside and pushed and they popped right out. I just had to be careful near the ear/bow portion because on a few of them, they would start to break off it I didn’t do it carefully.
i have this mold too, but i find it really hard to get the final results out of the mold. i’ve ruined cupcakes, muffins, etc. how did it release well for you?