I came up with this recipe for Vanilla Mochi Donuts to enter the Spice Islands Vanilla Challenge and I was one of the three finalists!
Wanting to bring out the best of the ingredients, I used not only vanilla extract but vanilla sugar. Is there anything more satisfying than a piece of fried dough covered in sugar? I think not. Add mochiko AND vanilla into the mix and you’ve got the perfect combination!
ingredients:
2 cups mochiko (sweet rice flour)
2 cups flour
1-1/2 cups vanilla sugar**
3 eggs
1-1/2 cups whole milk
4 Tablespoons baking powder
2 teaspoons Spice Islands Vanilla Extract
oil (for frying)
1/2 cup vanilla sugar**
The only thing you will have to make ahead is the vanilla sugar. Scrape and bury a vanilla bean into two cups of sugar. Keep in an airtight container until you are ready to use.
In a large bowl mix together the mochiko, flour, vanilla sugar, eggs, milk, baking powder and vanilla. Set aside. (Mochiko is a Japanese rice flour that can be found in asian sections of the market or online
Heat the oil in a large skillet or a home fryer.
Drop by the Tablespoon into the hot oil. They will expand a lot. Also the mochiko makes the batter very pull-y and sticky, so try your best to keep it formed into nice round shapes.
Once the dough pops up and floats, fry until golden brown, a few minutes on each side. Drain them on a wire rack.
While still hot, roll the donuts in the vanilla sugar mixture.
My prize? A YEAR’S supply of vanilla! That’s a lot of vanilla.
For more info about the contest and the other winners, here.
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congrats!!! and these look so yum….been meaning to try making mochi soon, will need to use one of your recipes!
Congratulations!!! These were awesome donuts and everyone should make them.
Congratulations! Those look so delicious. Your recipes are so creative!
These look perfect!
Hooray!! Congrats!!
This is such a unique recipe! I really like mochi, and in a doughnut it would be very special. Thanks for sharing! I look forward to seeing more of your recipes throughout 2011
I love all your mochi based recipes and was looking forward to trying some of the more unusal ones such as these when I purchased what I thought was a bag of mochi flour online. What arrived was sweet rice in its raw grain form. Do you have any ideas/recipes for this?
Congrats! I’m definitely bookmarking this for later.
@Misti Aw, man! Well, you can make Mochi Rice meatballs with it! http://justjennrecipes.com/mochi-rice-meatballs/2010/01/26/
Hi,
i’m a little confused about the vanilla bean. what do you mean by scrape and bury?
@Kat
Cut the bean in half, scrape out the insides, bury it in the sugar.
these were tasty …but i couldnt manage to make them into a nice shape. I used coconut oil to fry them, dont know if that made a difference. next time i will try regular oil to see if it did.
Goodness! These turned out amazing! And make a very sizeable batch! We’ll be having breakfast goodies for a few days (and some of my coworkers will share in the bounty as well
) I love finding new things to use mochiko with. Thanks for sharing the recipe! And also, congrats!