Rainbow Jelly with Condensed Milk Cream
A colourful layered dessert made entirely in the fridge: coloured jelly layers alternating with a cream of condensed milk, yogurt and coconut milk. The children's dessert that makes an impression on any birthday table — and the one they love helping to make.
A rainbow needs several colours. The recipe below describes one layer; for the coloured result you prepare two to four flavours one after the other, and each layer has to set before the next one goes on — otherwise they blend into a single cloudy tone.
And bear in mind this is a dessert of hours, not minutes: each layer needs its 2 or 3 hours in the fridge before you can pour the next one over it.
🔎 What is condensed milk? — where it comes from, what goes in it and how it differs.
Ingredients
- 1 sachet of flavoured jelly per coloured layer (raspberry, lemon, orange, green apple…), at least 2 flavours
- 1 sachet of unflavoured gelatine for the cream layer
- 250 ml hot water (1 cup)
- 395 g condensed milk
- 200 g firm plain yogurt
- 125 ml coconut milk (1/2 cup)
Method
- 1
Dissolve the unflavoured gelatine in 1/4 cup of hot water and set aside.
- 2
Prepare the first coloured layer: dissolve a sachet of flavoured jelly in hot water, following the instructions on the packet.
- 3
Prepare the cream layer: blend the reserved unflavoured gelatine together with the condensed milk, the yogurt and the coconut milk until smooth.
- 4
Pour ONE layer into the mould and put it in the fridge until it is completely firm — reckon on 2 to 3 hours. Only then does the next one go in.
- 5
Repeat with the next colour, always onto the layer that has already set, alternating coloured jelly and cream until the mould is full. At the end, chill for a few hours more before turning out.