I know, I know… I already have a Mochi Donut recipe on the blog!īut while I was fiddling around in the kitchen, I came up with another version. Black Sesame Mochi Donuts are deliciously savory and satisfyingly chewy. Use the black glaze to put in the pupils, nose and face whiskers.All the stretchy, bouncy fun of mochi. Use a piping bag or ziplock back with the tip cut of and pipe on white eyeballs as well as body whiskers. Dip the doughnuts to glaze and set glaze side up on a tray. You’ll use these for Totoro’s eyeballs, nose and whiskers. Tint one bowl black and leave the other white. Spoon out two small bowls of glaze and set them aside. If needed, adjust viscosity: add more powdered sugar (by the teaspoon) to make the glaze thicker and more milk (by the teaspoon) to make it thinner.
Make the glaze: Mix together all of the ingredients until smooth. Let cool for 5 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack. Bake for 11-12 minutes, until slightly brown and an inserted toothpick comes out dry. Spoon into a ziplock bag, cut off the corner and pipe into the donut wells. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until just combined. In a small bowl, whisk the sugar, melted butter, egg, and buttermilk. Whisk together the sesame seeds, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. With a mortar and pestle, grind the sesame seeds until slightly crushed. Lightly grease or spray a non-stick 6 count doughnut pan. Place a rack in the upper third of your oven and preheat it to 350☏. They’re a bit more nutty, roast-y, and smoky. If you like peanut-y or nutty desserts, you’ll like black sesame! If you haven’t had black sesame seeds, they’re similar to regular white sesame, but with a slight taste difference. They aren’t as über-Totoro as I pictured them, but they were delicious, mainly because I used my favourite Asian dessert ingredient, black sesame, to flavour these guys. Happily though, I think they kind of came out looking like earless Totoros. These Totoro doughnuts weren’t for a party or even someone else – they were just for me. I don’t even know why I cared so much about the almond ears. The only good thing about the broken doughnuts was the fact that I got to stress eat them. I went through 3 doughnuts before I gave up. I really, really wanted to use glaze-dipped almonds for ears, but the crumb was so tender (usually a good thing) that the almonds wouldn’t hold. I thought about them and thought about them for so long that when I finally made them, they didn’t look as Totoro as I wanted. Anyway, something similar happened with these doughnuts. It was fine, but it wasn’t homemade pizza. Of course, on the day that we were supposed to have pizza, the oven wasn’t working properly. I thought about the toppings, the dough, the logistics of baking off pizzas while they were over, how I set the table, everything. This was when I just started cooking and I wasn’t really too confident in the kitchen.
Once, I invited my in-laws over for pizza. Usually, when I do this, it ends in disaster. I’ll obsess over the ingredients, the way the finished product is going to look and how it’s going to taste. Totoro week continues with these black sesame Totoros! Be sure to check out Lyndsay’s Totoro cake tutorial and my Totoro apple pie pancakes!ĭo you guys ever picture something coming out perfectly? Maybe this is a weird quirk of mine, but sometimes I’ll day dream about dishes.
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