Easy Sakura Mochi Cherry Blossom Rice Cake from Cooked Rice - rice bowls

Method

• Divide the bean paste in half and make balls.
• If you have the cherry blossom leaves, soak them in water for about 10 minutes (to desalt) and wash.
• Mash the hot cooked rice with a spoon (or similar).
• Sprinkle a little water if the rice is hard.
• (I put the rice in a rice bowl to mash it easily as the photo shows.)
• Mix the ingredients marked well.
• Put only a small amount of the red food colouring on the tip of a chopstick and dissolve it in the mixture.
• Add the mixture into the cooked rice, and mash in until sticky.
• Make sure all of the rice turns pink.
• Divide the rice in half, and wrap the bean paste ball.
• It's done.
• It looks more authentic with a cherry blossom leaf.
• If you don't add the red food colouring, sakura mochi will be white like the photo, but the taste is same.