Tanabata Festival Jelly

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   These are the ingredients.

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   Dissolve 2.5 g of gelatin in 35 ml of hot water, and add 15 ml of syrup and the umeshu (plum wine).

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   Mix together, then add the food colouring to make a dark blue colour, and pour into the mould.

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   Chill in the fridge.

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   Get 1/2 of a peach, and cut it into a moon shape using a circle cookie cutter.

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   Adjust the thickness with a kitchen knife.

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   Remove the cooled jelly from the fridge, and decorate it with the moon and star-shaped sprinkles.

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   Make the Milky Way in the center with the gold dust.

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   Dissolve 2.5 g of gelatin in 20 ml of hot water.

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    Add 1 tablespoon of the 60 ml of syrup that you previously measured, and mix.

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    Using a spoon, gently pour some over the gelatin base (coat the gold dust and star-shaped sugar decorations so that they won't float).

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    Chill it in the fridge until the surface is completely set.

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    Dissolve the remaining 5 g of gelatin in 140 ml of hot water, add all of the remaining syrup and mix well.

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    Once the jelly has set, add the mixture little by little with a spoon, then slowly pour it in so that the decorations do not float off.

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    Chill in the fridge for 1-2 hours, and it's complete.

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    It looks like this from the side.

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    Check out the step-by-step video by decocookie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-_LkRegOR8

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.