Chocolate Mochi with Chocolate Chips

The same day I made the Wanna Be Red Lobster Cheese biscuits, I also made Chocolate Mochi (but I added Chocolate Chips). I've made this plain before but didn't blog it. It's such a pain in the ass to blog the process of making something so I've made it easier (on myself) to just show the ingredients, the recipe, and the before and after pix (if any).

I got this recipe from Kirbie's Cravings (plain Chocolate Mochi). Here's the link to her recipe plus better photos from her blog..

Chocolate Mochi

(The sugar is MIA...)

Ingredients:
1 cup butter, melted
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, beaten
2 tsp. baking powder
16 oz. box Mochiko flour
1 cup dutch processed cocoa or regular unsweetened cocoa powder
1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk
3/4 cup coconut milk (I fkd up here because I did not shake the can of coconut milk so I actually poured in the cream that had risen to the top - it looked all curdled and shit when I added it in and mixed it but it still came out all right)

***TOTALLY OPTIONAL: I added Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips on top of the batter. For fun, I asked TC to poke them into the batter using toothpicks which she happily agreed to do. She also got the fun job of cracking and beating the four eggs.Hey, anything to get the kid excited about baking, right?  

Directions:

1. Preheat over to 350 F. Cream the butter with sugar.

2. Beat in the evaporated milk and coconut milk to the butter/sugar mixture.

3. Beat eggs into the mixture.

4. Beat in the rice flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanilla.

5. Pour batter into a 9x 11 pan.

6. Bake in oven for one hour, until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

7. Cool completely before serving.

Hey you can see the cheese biscuits there! Bert found one of his Star Wars set Pez (the Death Star) in the pantry (along with an old Chococat and Easter Bunny).  The rest of the set is scattered around the house or in our office. When TC was a wee toddler, she used to draw Darth Vader, the Death Star and the Imperial Walkers. That's what you get when you have pop culture geeks for parents.

The color is all wierd here but here's a corner piece. I cut it diagonally then put it back together for this photo. I like how the mochi makes this chewy. Unfortunately some of my co-workers did not like it. Their loss. It was the chewiness that turned off one of them. But then, he's white and doesn't really like Asian stuff.

I saved all the edges for us and gave away the middle pieces to our neighbors and to a few co-workers. Damn, I'm selfish aren't I, saving the edges. Don't even think about getting a corner from me. I liked the addition of the dark chocolate chips in here. It was like biting into a hidden treasure. I should put more next time!