If there's one variety of ice cream that's been on the up-and-up in recent years, it's mochi. Mochi ice cream has an outer layer of rice flour dough surrounding a puck of frozen ice cream.

In its orthodox form it consists of a mochi dumpling with anko (sweet red bean paste) inside and a strawberry (ichigo in Japanese) at its core. For the Ichigo Daifuku Pie, McDonald’s Japan instead ...

Munchi Mochi, a new doughnut shop near Kirkwood Community College in southwest Cedar Rapids, opened in March at the helm of a ...