Blue Jelly

cheeks

My daughter is going to be 4 at the beginning of March and she wants a 'paddling pool cake'. Blue jelly is used as the water in the pool, but i don't know where to get blue jelly from.
Has anyone seen blue jelly anywhere?

Enterprise_1701C

I remember looking for this a few years ago, ended up making my own with gelatine, flavouring and blue colouring. Took a couple of goes to get the flavour right though!!

daveyjp

Make it yourself - gelatine and blue food colouring. You'll need to add some flavouring if you want to eat it.

Enterprise_1701C

Great minds think alike!!

cheeks

Good plan, Stan!
I'll get experimenting with flavour!
Thank you for replying x

daska

I did a blue/green sea around DS2's 'ship' birthday cake last year. Apple juice, vegegel (because it's much easier than gelatine and tastes nicer) and blue food colouring in about 3 different shades swirled together, looked very impressive even though I say so myself. If you want it a real 'blue' I think your biggest problem is going to be flavour, most of the 'essences' are pretty awful if they're used on their own (but I guess most 4 year old probably won't care too much about the flavour LOL).

sexykellylovespink

hiya, can you not make up ordinary rasperry jelly and add blue food colouring x

lisa26_2

If you're using gelatine get the leaf stuff not the powder. its much easier to work with.

jackieb

sexykellylovespink wrote: »

hiya, can you not make up ordinary rasperry jelly and add blue food colouring x

Won't that make it purple?

inspace

red jelly green dye I think would do it

tpsjrm

inspace wrote: »

red jelly green dye I think would do it

Nope - that would make brown! Try a lime jelly with some blue dye - would make a bluey-green, which should be okay.

In my youth I used to work at Birds laboratories, and for fun we used to make up raspberry flavoured jellies but coloured green. Got people to taste them and they always said they were lime jellies! :rotfl:

Good luck.