Coffee & Baileys Jello Cubes
photo by Thorsten
- Ready In:
- 24hrs 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
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30-35 cubes
ingredients
- 11 sheets unflavored gelatin
- 2 cups coffee (hot, as strong as you like it)
- 5 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup whipping cream
- 1 cup Baileys Irish Cream
directions
- Let soak 7 sheets of leaf gelatin in cold water (for about 5 minutes).
- Make coffee. Make it as strong as you like. Add brown sugar and mix until sugar is dissolved.
- Take the gelatin out of the cold water and stir into the hot coffee until disolved. Let cool slightly.
- Meanwhile prepare a suited form of about 10 x 6 inches in size. Line out with cling film. Fill in the coffee mixture and put into the fridge for about 2 hours.
- Then soak 4 sheets of leaf gelatin in cold water (for about 5 minutes).
- Heat up the whipping cream. It should be warm. Take the gelatin out of the cold water and stir into the warm whipping cream until dissolved. Add Baileys and mix.
- Let cool, but don't let it gelatinize. Take Coffee jello out of the fridge and pour carefully the Baileys mixture onto the coffee jello.
- Put in the fridge and chill for at least 6 hours (or overnight).
- Take the "Coffee & Baileys Jello" together with the cling film out of the form.
- Cut it into cubes of about 1 inch using a thin sharp knife. Serve immediately or put them back into the fridge until use.
- NOTE: Should be make ahead one day prior serving.
- NOTE: Cooking time is for making one day ahead.
- NOTE on Gelatin: if you can't get leaf gelatin, you may use granulated gelatin. 4 sheets leaf gelatin are 1 envelope (o,25 oz) granulated gelatin. I would suggest to use 2 envelopes for the coffee part and 1 envelope for the Baileys part.
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Reviews
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An unusual recipe but it came out great! The coffee does need to be made strong or the flavour won't be able to compete with the Baileys! Next time I think I will set it in four layers rather than two, to blend the flavours and textures more evenly. This would be lovely as a light dessert with chocolate curls on top!
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I love this recipe! I was out of Bailey's Irish Cream, and it was Sunday, so no luck getting a bottle. Fortunately, I had a bottle of Amarula on hand. I didn't have gelatin sheets, so I used powdered gelatin as Thorsten suggested. I topped the cubes with mini-chocolate chips. I thought the chocolate would enhance the flavors, and it did. While I like the cubes, and the recipe was very easy to prepare, it would be even easier to prepare (and especially serve) if made in large shot glasses or some other individual bowl/glass, like a small martini glass. We got a little carried away and poured more Amarula on the dessert plates. That was good, but it would have been even easier to eat if I made the dessert in individual glasses.
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