Spooky Black Sesame & Ube Mochi Ghosts

Servings

4 ppl

Cuisine

Jap

Category

Dessert

A fun Asian-inspired Halloween treat that looks suitably ghoulish while still tasting delicious. Soft, chewy ube mochi is shaped into little ghosts and filled with a rich black sesame centre. The purple ube and jet-black sesame give them naturally spooky Halloween colours without needing loads of artificial colouring.

Ingredients

    Ube mochi

    • 1 cup glutinous rice flour
    • 1/4 cup sugar
    • 3/4 cup coconut milk
    • 2 tablespoons ube halaya or ube jam
    • 1 teaspoon ube extract, optional
    • Cornflour, for dusting

    Black sesame filling

    • 1/2 cup black sesame paste
    • 2 tablespoons coconut cream
    • 1 tablespoon icing sugar

    Decoration

    • Black sesame seeds
    • Melted dark chocolate for ghost eyes and mouths

    Directions

    1. Make the filling: Mix the black sesame paste, coconut cream and icing sugar until thick and smooth. Refrigerate while preparing the mochi.

    2. Make the mochi: Combine the glutinous rice flour, sugar, coconut milk, ube jam and ube extract. Mix until completely smooth.

    3. Cook: Microwave for around 2 minutes, stir well, then continue cooking in 30-second intervals until the mixture becomes thick, sticky and slightly translucent.

    4. Shape: Once cool enough to handle, dust your hands and work surface with cornflour. Divide the mochi into small portions and flatten each piece.

    5. Fill: Add a teaspoon of black sesame filling to the centre. Seal the mochi around it, then gently shape it into a little ghost with a rounded head and flowing base.

    6. Decorate: Use tiny dots of melted dark chocolate to create spooky eyes and mouths. Sprinkle a few black sesame seeds around the serving plate.