Agar-Agar Fruit Jelly Cake

This Agar-Agar Fruit Jelly Cake is a popular Asian dessert recipe made with agar-agar powder. This Jelly Fruit Cake contains fresh fruits with a coconut cream base giving it a tropical jelly feel. 

ABOUT THIS DESSERT – JELLY FRUIT CAKE WITH COCONUT 

This Flavorful Agar Jelly Fruit Cake has a blast of juicy fresh fruits and coconut jelly base. 

Easy to make and is a no-gelatin dessert recipe 

Learn how to make Fruit Jelly Cake Dessert from scratch using this hassle-free recipe 

Agar-Agar Jelly Cake Recipe

The Tropical Jelly Fruit Cake is the most popular recipe on this blog. Easy to make and loved by all. So, that’s when I decided to make another Jelly Fruit Cake Recipe, keeping it simple and fun with a blast of fruits 

Another, tropical recipe I like is the Mango Coconut Cream Mousse Recipe by Veena

Agar-agar being a neutral ingredient can be used in so many recipes, it can also replace gelatin in most gelatin based recipes.

TO MAKE THIS DESSERT, (JELLY FRUIT CAKE) ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS REQUIRED IS, 

AGAR-AGAR: 

First of all, agar-agar is a vegetarian substitute for gelatin, however, the texture seems to be quite different from gelatin. Unlike gelatin, agar-agar does not melt easily but remains solid below 50 degrees C. Similarly, t is used to solidify custards, jelly, and many other desserts. It is tasteless and when used doesn’t derive any color. In conclusion, this is what will give our jelly cake power to hold its shape and derive a crumbly texture.

TYPES OF AGAR-AGAR for the Agar-Agar Jelly Fruit Cake:

Above all, agar-agar is found in the form of strands as well as powder. In this recipe, we will be using the powder form.

The essential step to use agar-agar is to make sure you first dissolve it in cold liquid before you cook the mixture. In other words, if you add agar-agar directly to hot liquid the agar-agar will not dissolve but form lumps. So, it’s essential 

FRUITS:

This recipe contains a variety of FRUITS. You can chop any fresh or canned fruit for this jelly cake. I’ve used some chopped strawberries, pomegranate, kiwi, orange segments and black grapes. Similarly, you can use any fruit you like and that is available to you depending on the season. In addition, you can chop them into bigger chunks or smaller, you can even place some without chopping (I didn’t chop the grapes).

PLACE THE FRUITS STRATEGICALLY

While placing the fruits in the aluminum dish do it strategically, you need to place them making sure all the colors are noticed and you do not have lumps of the same fruit in one place, this makes the tropical jelly cake look prettier

How to make fruit jelly dessert (Agar-Agar Jelly Fruit Cake)

TYPE OF DISH TO BE USED:

To set the jelly you can use either a glass dish, a silicon baking tray or aluminum dish. Similarly, in my recipe, I’ve used an aluminum dish but this doesn’t matter as once set the jelly comes out easily

UNMOLD: 

Using a palette knife, run through the sides of the dish (in other words, loosen the sides of the jelly). Then, cut into bars and remove from the dish

Recipe – Agar-Agar Fruit Jelly Cake

Ingredients 

• fresh fruits, chopped – 1 cup (I used kiwi, pomegranate, orange segments, grapes, and strawberries)
• agar- agar powder – 1 teaspoon 
• cold water – 60 ml
• coconut cream – 200 ml 
• vanilla extract – ½ teaspoon
• castor sugar – 4 to 5 tablespoons 
• unflavored oil – ⅛ teaspoon, for greasing

Method 

• Grease a 6-inch tin with oil (a very light coat of oil), keep aside
• Next, in a pan add the cold water and sprinkle the agar-agar powder all around, mix well making sure there are no lumps. Then, place this mixture on medium heat and melt the agar-agar. 
• Now, add the coconut cream and stir well. Add the vanilla extract and castor sugar, mix well until all the sugar has dissolved. Bring the mixture to a slight boil and switch off the gas 
• Pour this coconut cream and agar-agar mixture to the greased 6-inch tin. Let it cool just for a minute and place the fresh fruits all around. Let this cake sit in the fridge for 2-3 hours.
• In conclusion, remove from the fridge, run a knife all around the dish to loosen the edges, cut slices and serve immediately 

Recipe Card – Agar-Agar Fruit Jelly Cake

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