Heat juice, sugar, and agar powder in a pot until thick, bubbly, and clear. Transfer to an oiled dish.
Drop in food coloring and swirl around. Allow to set by cooling completely.
Break candy jelly into small pieces and dehydrate (air dry) for 2-3 days until exterior is crystalized.
2/5
Coffee Jelly
Difficulty
Easy
Prep time
10 minutes
Total time
20 minutes
Yield
4
Ingredients
2 cups cold brew
½ cup sugar
2 packets gelatin powder
¼ cup cold water
Instructions
Bloom gelatin powder in water for 5 minutes.
Heat sugar with 1 cup cold brew until dissolved. Microwave gelatin until liquid and add to warm coffee sugar mixture. Stir to combine. Add in remaining 1 cup of cold coffee.
Pour coffee mixture into tray and allow to set completely in the refrigerator.
Cut into cubes and serve in a glass with milk and coffee!
3/5
Grape Jelly Cake
Difficulty
Medium
Prep time
20 minutes
Total time
35 minutes
Yield
8
Ingredients
4 cups red grapes, thoroughly rinsed
½ cup water
3 packs gelatin powder
1 cup water
⅓ cup sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
Peel grapes and save peels. Place peeled grapes into 6” cake pan.
Bloom gelatin powder in ½ cup water.
In a pot combine together water, sugar, lemon juice, and grape peels. Heat until sugar is dissolved and until grape peels have naturally dyed the liquid magenta. Strain out peels.
Add bloomed gelatin to the liquid mixture.
Pour grape liquid over grapes into cake pan. Chill and set completely.
Unmold and serve!
4/5
Turtle Jelly Cupcake
Difficulty
Easy
Prep time
10 minutes
Total time
15 minutes
Yield
12
Ingredients
12 cupcakes
2 cups green buttercream
1 box green lime jello mix
1 packet gelatin powder
2 tbsp water
Green fondant
Edible black marker
Instructions
Bloom gelatin in water.
Make jello mixture according to the box instructions.
Microwave gelatin to melt and mix into jello liquid. Deposit into silicone cupcake liners, skim off foam, and let set completely in the fridge.
Meanwhile, frost cupcakes with green buttercream. Invert onto parchment paper to achieve a smooth surface. Freeze 15 minutes. Peel off parchment paper.
Create turtle head and legs with green fondant. Dot eyes onto the head with edible market. Stick onto buttercream base.
Unmold jello and place on the flat surface of the green buttercream as the “shell”
5/5
Flower Jelly Cake
Difficulty
Hard
Prep time
20 minutes
Total time
1 hour
Yield
10
Ingredients
Clear jelly Base
3 tbsp gelatin powder
2 cups sugar
4 cups water
1 tsp citric acid
Color gelatin base
1 tbsp gelatin powder
¼ cup cold water
1 cup milk
½ cup sugar
Food coloring of choice
Instructions
First make the clear jelly base. Mix gelatin powder with 1 cup water and bloom for 5 minutes. Combine remaining water, sugar, and citric acid in a saucepan and cook until sugar is dissolved. Heat gelatin mix in the microwave until liquid then combine with sugar syrup. Deposit into clear plastic dome molds and allow to set completely in the fridge.
For the color gelatin base first bloom gelatin in cold water. Then heat milk and sugar until sugar is dissolved. Microwave gelatin until it is liquid, Stir into milk mixture. Divide milk mixture into separate containers and color.
Inject milk jelly into clear jelly to create flower designs. Chill another 30 minutes in the fridge to set.
