PRODUCTION OF RICE CAKE CONFECTIONARY USING TREHALOSE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a production method for rice cake confectionery that has comfortable disintegration and soft texture in the mouth and shows the appearance having irregular bubbles on the dough surfaces just as observed in conventional hand-made products. SOLUTION: In this production of rice cake confectionery using trehalose, the dried dough pieces (discs of several inches) for rice cake confectionery prepared by the conventional process are coated with a trehalose solution on their surfaces, further dried and baked to generate bubbles on the dough surfaces. In another embodiment, the rice cake dough prepared by the usual method is made into two-laminar sheets, pin-holes are bored on the sheets of the rice cake dough, clicked, dried. Then, the resultant rice cake dried dough pieces are coated with a trehalose solution on their surface, additionally dried and baked to form bubbles on the dough surfaces thereby producing the objective rice cake confectionery.