Mini Mochi Konpeito Cookies
These cute and fun mini mochi cookies are stuffed with rainbow mochi bites and white chocolate chips, then covered in konpeito candy.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup softened butter 1 stick
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp kosher salt
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup rainbow mini mochi bits plus more for decorating
- 1/4 cup konpeito
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line two baking sheets with parchment or silicone.
- With an electric mixer, cream butter, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, and baking powder until fluffy.
- Add egg and vanilla, and mix again until homogenous.
- Add flour and mix slowly until the dry ingredients are just combined.
- Add mochi and white chocolate chips and mix again until evenly combined.
- Divide cookie dough into 13 balls, each about the size of a golf ball, and divide among the two baking sheets.
- Add additional mochi bits and the konpeito candies on top of the cookie balls for decoration, pressing them into the dough.
- Bake each tray of cookies for 15 minutes or until lightly browned at the bottom, no chilling required.
- Cookies keep well in an airtight container at room temperature.
Notes
- Please make sure to use kosher salt and not table salt, or your cookies will be too salty.
- Feel free to substitute the white chocolate chips for other kinds of chocolate.