May the Jello be with You
In honor of the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens I decided to make some Star Wars shaped jello jigglers. Let me tell you, my thought process went something like: “I should do something easy this week. And I have this kit from Walmart. But that’s almost too easy … I’ll add to it and do layers. Layered jello jigglers. How hard can it be?”
So I went to Pinterest and found a recipe. It’s a good recipe; you should check it out for sure. I’m not going to get into how to make them because, honestly, I didn’t make them very well.
I’m not sure why I thought jello would be easy. I think I made it once before when I was younger than 12 years old—and I’m certain that my only part of the process was to maybe stir. Maybe. And I know we didn’t use fancy molds.
So this brought me to Wednesday night with three pots on my stove top—one with blue jello, one with red jello, and one with a creamy gelatin.
I filled all of my Star Wars molds per the instructions on this blog. I had enough leftover jello mixture that I decided to also fill my Avenger’s ice cube tray.
And I still had leftover. This is where things got silly. I turned the burner on for the red jello to heat up the mixture because the new layer is supposed to be warm so it sticks to the previous layer. So I started the red to add to the top of the bowl of jello that came out of having too much. And I went downstairs to check on how the Christmas decorating progressed.
I forgot the jello. I burnt it. I kid you not. I burnt jello.
When I came back upstairs I could smell the sickly sweet scent of burnt jello. To keep the caramelizing sugar water from sticking to the pan I added about a cup of water to dilute it. What a mess.
I didn’t pop out the jello molds until the following day. The Star Wars jigglers went okay. They aren’t perfect, but they did stick together. The Avengers popped out except for the bottom layer—with all of the design. Fail.
They taste good, and that’s all that matter, right? Next time I’ll simplify.
