Pumpkin Mochi - Baked, Vegan, Gluten-free Fall Dessert Recipe

Chewy, warm, sweet pumpkin mochi filled with molten brown sugar filling or melted cheese filling. This easy recipe can help you to use up all the leftover from your Halloween pumpkin carving.

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Step 1

Add pumpkin puree, brown sugar, and cinnamon powder to a large bowl, stir until fully mixed.

Step 2

Add glutinous rice flour to the mixture, mix and knead all the ingredients together with your hands for about 5 minutes, until it forms a dough. (The dough shouldn't be sticky or dry. You won't be able to stretch this dough like stretching a bread dough. As long as this dough feels smooth, it's ready to go.)

Step 3

Divide the pumpkin dough into equal 10 pieces. Each piece should weigh about 61g. Roll them into balls.

Step 4

Take a dough ball, use your palms to flatten it into a 4” circle. (Make sure the wrapper is no less than ½'' thick, otherwise the wrappers may leak when baked.) Add 1 tbsp of brown sugar or mozzarella cheese in the middle of the wrapper. Seal the wrapper, roll the dough into a ball.

Step 5

Gently press the ball down a bit, in this way you will get a 2.5'' diameter x 1'' thick flat pumpkin shaped dough. Use the back of a small knife to press 3 to 4 crossing lines on the top side of the mochi dough to mimic the pumpkin's pattern. (I pressed 3 lines on cheese flavor mochis, and 4 lines on brown sugar flavor mochis. So that I would be able to tell them apart after they are baked.)

Step 6

Preheat the oven to 340 °F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or foil. Place the pumpkin mochi doughs on the baking sheet. Brush vegetable oil or melted butter all over each mochi dough to prevent cracking (don't forget the bottom side). Bake at 340 °F for 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown.

Step 7

Transfer the baked pumpkin mochis to a serving plate. Cut a cinnamon stick into 1'' pieces. Insert a piece of cinnamon stick into the crossing point of the lines as a faux pumpkin stem. Serve hot/warm.

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