Recently I realised a long cherished dream: Roxy and I made a jelly castle (or made a good attempt at anyway). We made it for her bf's birthday... check it out!
So a jelly castle involves lots of jelly (and waiting....) and in this case, lots of funky candy to decorate with . We had dinosaurs, an octopus and various other colourful decorations.
The waiting was done between layers, as we had 6 colours. I used my castle baking tin for this project (makes sense, right?) and poured the jelly in one layer at a time, letting it set in the fridge for an hour in between each layer. We put in dinsosaurs as watchmen. We watched Pirates of the Caribbean for mid-layer entertainment, which may or may not have led to inspiring us to put a treasure chest in the jelly castle!
Making the castle was time consuming but not very difficult. Getting it out of the mold was going to prove more difficult. I had read a suggestion to put the whole thing in warm water to loosen it up - but I did not know how long it was supposed to be put in warm water and as it turned out, I put it in a bit too long... The towers started melting and an octopus was found swimming in the innter moat!
Fortunately it did not melt so much that the dinosaurs were able to escape and it kept its castle shape - sort of - and all in all it was jelly good fun (har har).
And what happened to the treasure chest? It was guarded ferociously by an orange T-rex. arrrr.
See you next time for some sinterklaas yumminess!
XOXO Jennifer
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