I’m not a terrible cook, I can generally knock up the basics so when E and I decided to have a go at a jelly I was feeling quite confident. The MiL had sent us some fabby jelly moulds so I had visions of a beautiful jelly tower to wow you all with. E got some fruit ready while I dissolved the gelatin in a bit of boiling water and topped it up to a pint with orange juice. E stuck all the fruit into the mould and then made a mini orange tsunami stirring up the orange and gelatin mix. We poured the mixture over the fruit and, because the fridge was full, I took it out to the utility room to set. Luckily, the utility room is not much warmer than the fridge so I was sure it would do the job.
At tea time I fetched the jelly which was looking nice and, you know, jellyish and with much fanfare it was inverted onto the cake plate and…nothing. It did not budge a millimetre. No problem I thought, I’m not afraid to give it a bit of a jiggle, it looks wonderfully solid after all. Cue ten minutes of tapping, shaking, running under hot water and generally looking a bit stupid. Finally there was a gratifying slurp noise and this is what we got:
Not sure it was worth the effort!
jbmumofone says
It kind of looks a dodgy fruit salad. mahahahaha….sorry 😉
Cat says
Yep, that’s a fair assessment. Not my finest hour!
Elaine Livingstone says
yyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh Im not the only human that messes up cooking stuff, well done you for sharing!!
Cat says
We can’t all be Nigella!
BlueBearWood says
Oh that is so so funny! The reverse of a skull jelly I made for halloween and we couldn’t get out of the mould! Bet it tasted much nicer than it looked 🙂
Cat says
It certainly did (although it would have to be pretty awful not to!)