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Chocolate Birthday Cake Butter Mochi by Sheldon Simeon
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Chocolate Birthday Cake Butter Mochi by Sheldon Simeon

The perfect mixture of chewy, squishy, dense, and sticky, these coconut and rice flour cake bars (a cousin of Filipino bibingka) are one of the most beloved island desserts out there.

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Jun 03, 2022
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Excerpted with permission from Cook Real Hawai’i by Sheldon Simeon:

Butter mochi is the best. The perfect mixture of chewy, squishy, dense, and sticky, these coconut and rice flour cake bars (a cousin of Filipino bibingka) are one of the most beloved island desserts out there.

Plain old butter mochi is great, but the kind we do a…

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