can you make your own angel delight?

Loadsabob

Angel Delight

I hate convenience foods, I hate processed foods, flavourings and chemicals, I don't eat junk food and I don't eat much sugar.

So why do I like Angel Delight??? It's disgusting, fake, whippy stuff. But it tastes dreamy!

I suppose I only have it a couple of times a year, and I know it's not doing me any harm in such small quantities, but I wondered whether anyone's had any success making their own version? Favourite flavours are butterscotch and strawberry. I can't imagine it would be possible to replicate that synthetic taste and mouth-feel, and frankly, most of the time, who'd want to?

But there's always that very occasional craving, and I'd love to be a purist and make my own.

Any other rubbishey foods anyone would like to be able to reproduce in their own kitchens?!...

N9eav

You can make fruit fools, which are fab, but high in cals. Take a pint of double cream, whip it up with a little sugar. fold in some liquidised fruits, such as strawbs, rhubarbs, and let it set in the fridge.


Or try a half pint of cream whipped. Fold in double the amount of greek yoghurt, and pour over some thawed frozen raspberries. Sprinkle some brown sugar on top and let sit for a while in the fridge.... also fab.

Yategirl

this is the recipe I use to make "real" angel delight:

1 pack of jelly
1 pack cream cheese 225g

beat the cheese till soft. Make up the jelly with half the recommended water, leave it to cool for 5 mins, mix well with the cream cheese and chill till set. (You could also make your own jelly using gelatine/vegren with half the recommended juice (i think just use 9floz rather than full 18floz).

hth - it is scrummy!

black-saturn

Thanks for that recipe. It sounds lovely. By cream cheese what do you mean?

MrsB_2

I would assume they mean Philly type stuff

black-saturn

Thanks, only the deli counter at my local Somerfield sells cream cheese but it's all puffed up!! Like a cheese mousse. Would this work better?

voodoozoe

You can also make an interesting dessert adding evaporated milk to jelly (half water again) but it don't taste like Angel Delight!!! Can we get any clues from the packet ingredients??? Shirley Goode used to be the woman for all the make your own stuff but is she still around?

black-saturn

Theres plenty of similar recipes on google but most of them have alcohol of some kind in them. I wonder how you would make the chocolate one

MATH

*Stands up and nervously splutters* My name is MATH and I'm adicted to Angel delight

I think you will find that Butterscotch Angel Delight splot over bananas is practically a health food.

Loadsabob

MATH, I'm glad I'm not the only one! Thanks for the suggestions, all.

I will definitely try the jelly and cream cheese one! Sounds weird, but I bet it's one of those things that tastes different than it sounds. Will have to be veggie jelly for me, the only problem there being that veggie jellies tend to go a lot easier on the flavouring, so I may need something else flavoursome to stop it just seeming like pink cheese!

Rikki

voodoozoe wrote:

You can also make an interesting dessert adding evaporated milk to jelly (half water again) but it don't taste like Angel Delight!!! Can we get any clues from the packet ingredients??? Shirley Goode used to be the woman for all the make your own stuff but is she still around?

I'd forgotten all about milk jelly. We used to have this as children. Happy times.