Sweet mochi is often made with sticky rice with a higher sugar content, and can be come with a variety of different fillings. The other type, savory mochi, is usually cooked as balls or fried as buns.

Characteristics: The texture of this dumpling-sized marvel is elastic, with a slightly gooey side, says Sabrina Fauda-Rôle, a France-based food stylist and author of Mochi: Make Your Own at Home.

Finally, we have the Sakura Mochi Pie (240 yen), which contains a two-layer filling of cherry blossoms and milk cream inside a pink sakura-colored pie. With salt-pickled sakura leaves in the filling, ...

Add in a little red or pink food colouring, and mix until the batter is a very light pink. Stand for 30 minutes. Heat a non-stick frying pan over very low heat.

Bourbon's sakura-flavored Mochi Chocolat an early bloomer By Angela Erika Kubo SHARE/SAVE Feb 18, 2014 ...

This year, it is offering three drinks. The Sakura Strawberry Pink Mochi Frappuccino (580 yen, S$6.99) has a sticky texture thanks to the use of domyoji-ko, a powder made from dried glutinous rice ...