A japanese recipe of sticky rice cake used as a sweet dish. The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. The resulting sticky rice mass is then formed into the final mochi shape and baked or boiled. Mochi is also extremely healthy as it is one of the few carbohydrate sources that is packed with protein and is gluten and cholesterol-free. This is mainly due to two reasons, the first one being the ingredients used while making it the japonica glutinous rice, water, sugar, cornstarch.