Mochi ice cream has evolved from an exotic niche dessert to a mainstream product, popping up nearly everywhere, including malls, street fairs and major supermarket chains
Walk into any supermarket lately and you'll find mochi -- a small, round ball of ice cream encased in rice dough.
In just the past three years, this finger food confection has evolved from an exotic niche dessert to a mainstream product, popping up nearly everywhere, including malls, street fairs and major supermarket chains.Mochi ice cream was invented in the US nearly three decades ago, and was originally made using ice cream flavors with an Asian flair.
Around that time, Friedman took a trip to Japan where he tried a local confection -- a round rice flour cake filled with a sweet bean paste."That treat stuck with me. I remember thinking it was a cute idea but something wasn't quite right about it," said Friedman, now 72.He told Hashimoto about it."We were already making pastry with mochi, which is rice dough. So we thought, why not make a treat like what I had in Japan.
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