mochi-based confectionery; rice-cake sweets
A broad category of traditional Japanese sweets made with mochi (glutinous rice cake), often filled with sweet bean paste or coated with kinako or nori.
I bought some mochi sweets as a souvenir.
The mochi sweets at this shop are delicious, with plenty of sweet bean paste inside.
大福 is a specific type of 餅菓子: a round mochi filled with sweet bean paste.
Standard kanji spelling.
Variant with kana for もち; less common but still seen.
Compound of 餅 (mochi, 'glutinous rice cake') and 菓子 (kashi, 'confectionery').