PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flour paste having a rice cake texture.SOLUTION: A dessert food with a rice cake texture containing fat-and-oil and etherified phosphate-crosslinked wheat starch is provided. The dessert food is either one of the following: a flour paste selected from custard cream, sour cream, chocolate cream, filling paste, fat spread and whipped cream, and confectionery selected from among pudding, ice cream, jelly, mousse, Bavarian cream, pana cotta, yogurt, steamed doughnut, steamed pusse, steamed cake, baked cake, baked pusse and baked doughnut.