Bunny Mochi

These mochi are so adorable and so simple they hardly need a recipe. I was inspired to make rabbit shaped mochi because of the East Asian myth that there is a rabbit in the moon making mochi. Rabbits have ended up playing a somewhat key role in our Harvest Moon celebrations over the year due to their associations with the moon. (Read more here) This is also simple enough to do after work when you don’t have the energy for much else. (Speaking from experience…)

Ingredients:

• pre packaged mochi. You can get these in a large variety of flavors. You want round ones.
• scissors
• black and pink food safe markers

Method:

Gently squish the round mochi into more of an oval shape.

With the scissors snip two ears from one side of the oval. Pull the ears up slightly and color the center with the pink marker.

With the black marker draw on two little eyes.

Enjoy!