Sunday, April 20, 2014

Colourful Jelly Art Dessert

If you remember I had shared the Striped Chocolate Jelly with you the last Christmas season. That was the first gelatin dessert I had ever tried out. That time I had melted the gelatin over a pan of hot water; but this time I did it a different and easier way. Read on to learn about it. I have been meaning to try this out for quite a while and so I finally decided to make this for our family Easter lunch. There were double helpings so I was pretty pleased. This dessert is light and not rich at all; ideal for this hot season.
Ingredients:
4 boxes jelly crystals, each in a different colour/flavour (You could also use just three if you'd rather have some more white than colour in it)
1 tin condensed milk - 450 gms (I used Amul's Mithai Mate; you may choose to use Nestle's Milkmaid)
2 sachets (10gms each) gelatin crystals
1/2 cup water
1 cup boiling water

Method:
  • Make the jellies in 4 individual vessels as per the instructions on the box and  refrigerate.
  • Once the jellies have set, proceed.
  • Put half a cup of water in a bowl and sprinkle the gelatin crystals into it.
  • Let rest for about 2 minutes.
  • Pour the boiling water into it and stir till the gelatin is completely dissolved.
  • Add the condensed milk and mix well.
  • You may keep this in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes so that it cools.
  • When the jellies are set, cut into cubes.
  • If you want to decorate the top, you can slice the jelly and use moulds to cut out the desired shapes.
  • Lightly oil a glass bowl.
  • Mix together the different coloured jelly cubes into the bowl.
  • Keeping aside some of the milk gelatin mixture to top the dessert in order to get a clean white finish, pour the rest over the jelly cubes.
  • The jelly cubes will float and come to the surface.
  • To avoid this you can pour some of the white mixture first and then let it set before adding some more and more.
  • Finally top the dessert with the white mix that was kept aside. I'm afraid I almost forgot to do this so my dessert is not a full white on the top even before I decorated it.
  • Refrigerate again and once firm, decorate as you wish. My little niece helped me with this.
  • Take out of the refrigerator, after a few minutes, overturn onto a plate.
  • Slice with a sharp knife and serve. 

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