Peach Nerikiri (Sweet Bean Paste Confections) - Easy Wagashi to Make for Dolls' Festival

Name: Peach Nerikiri (Sweet Bean Paste Confections) - Easy Wagashi to Make for Dolls' Festival
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 12 grams Shiratamako; 10 grams White sugar; 20 grams Water; 300 grams White bean paste (storebought); 1 Red food colouring; 1 for garnish Small leaves

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

Sakura mochi are the traditional sweets to serve and are always nice, but since Doll's Day festival is also Peach Festival, I thought a peach-themed treat would be fun to try.

Your cooking time will differ depending on the water in the white bean paste.
Remember that the dough will stiffen when chilled.
When you shape the dough using plastic wrap, and the dough sticks to the wrap when you try to remove it, that means that there is still too much water in the dough.
This will look very peach-like if you marbleize the pink and white portions so there is no clear boundary. Recipe by Choco makaron

Sakura mochi are the traditional sweets to serve and are always nice, but since Doll's Day festival is also Peach Festival, I thought a peach-themed treat would be fun to try.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

Sakura mochi are the traditional sweets to serve and are always nice, but since Doll's Day festival is also Peach Festival, I thought a peach-themed treat would be fun to try.

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Ingredients

6 servings

12 gramsShiratamako
10 gramsWhite sugar
20 gramsWater
300 gramsWhite bean paste (storebought)
1Red food colouring
1for garnish Small leaves

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Steps

1

Combine shiratama flour, sugar, and water in a pot and stir to dissolve.
2

Heat the mixture over medium heat and stir the mixture until well heated.
3

When the flour mixture is hot, add white bean paste. Mix well and continue stirring the ingredients together.
4

Cook until the water has evaporated. Touch the dough with a finger to check if the dough is thick and can be moulded into shape.
5

Form 2/3 of the mixture into a ball and set aside. Dissolve the food colouring in a small amount of water.
6

Add the dissolved food colouring to the remaining dough in the pot. Mix in enough colour to turn the dough a light shade of pink.
7

Place 30g of the white dough and 20g of the pink dough onto a square of plastic wrap. Gather the loose ends of the wrap to form a ball and twist tightly to form a peach shape.
8

It should look something like this.
9

Use your fingers to smooth out any wrinkles and press the dough into a rounded shape. Taper one end into a point.
10

Use a bamboo skewer, or the back of a knife, to indent a line midway into the peach shape, creating the seam of the peach.
11

This time, I garnished with leaves that I had on hand.