Coffee Jello

The grapefruit/lemon/mint jello are all gone, so Mr. Lilasaur has requested that I make more. Since it was a weekday, I picked a super simple one. For information about the book, please also refer to the same link.


The golden standard:

Picture from the book

Ingredients:

• 4 sheets of gelatin
• 400g cold water (again, I just used tap water)
• 10g (2 tbsp) instant coffee powder
• 50g granulated sugar
• 50g Kahlua coffee liquor (there is a smaller version available)
• ~30g cream (optional)
• a bit of unsweetened cocoa powder (optional)

Procedure:

1. Soften the 4 sheets of gelatin in an ice water bath
2. Heat the cold water until about 90 degree Celsius, turn the stove off, and remove the pot from the heat. (I forgot that we have a water kettle that keeps the water at 90 deg Celsius... if you have one of those, use water from that, much easier.)
3. Melt the 10g of instant coffee powder in the water
4. Melt the 50g of granulated sugar in the coffee mixture
5. Stir in the 50g of Kahlua coffee liquor
6. Try to squeeze as much water out of the gelatin as possible and melt them in the mixture
7. Stir and chill the whole thing in an ice water bath until thickens
8. Pour the mixture into individual cups
9. Let the cups sit in the fridge to solidify
10. Add some cream and cocoa powder to the jello before eating (we didn't have either, so we added condensed milk)

I didn't take pictures because they just look black, but they tasted good. Make sure that you remove the pot from the stove in step 2 so the coffee doesn't keep cooking to make the coffee taste sour.