Cathedral Window Dessert Recipe

How to Make Cathedral Window Jelly

Cathedral Window Jelly is a beautiful, eye-catching dessert that’s guaranteed to impress your guests this Christmas. Mine is a milky, delicious Cathedral Window Jelly Pudding made in classic Christmas colours—red and green. This bursting with flavour dessert has jewel-like jelly cubes that’ll remind you of stained-glass windows. Also called broken glass jelly, it will make a stunning addition to your festive table.

To make this dessert, we need two things mainly – jelly cubes in different colours, and a base milk jelly that will bind and hold the pudding together. To make the milk jelly, which has to set firmly, we need unflavoured gelatin. Many of you may know that gelatin is an animal-based product. So those of you who need a vegetarian option could use agar agar which is a great substitute.

For another delicious Christmastime sweet, you could find my traditional Goan Bebinca recipe and my Coconut Ice Recipe interesting.

Ingredients

(For 6-cup bundt pan with almost 9 inches diameter / 7-inch square pan / 8-inch round pan)

For coloured jelly cubes

1 ½ box raspberry jelly (OR any red jelly) crystal packets of 85/90/100g each + 1 ¼ cups hot water and ¼ cup cold water

1 ½ boxes kiwi or lime jelly (or any green jelly) crystal packets of 85/90/100g + 1 ¼ cups hot water and ¼ cup cold water (1 ½ cups hot water for vegetarian jellies)

For milk jelly

2 sachets (2 tbsp / 14g) unflavoured gelatin  (For Indian brand gelatin use 3 tbsp) +

½ cup very hot water

OR 1 ½ to 2 tbsp of agar agar + ½ cup water. Boil for a minute)

1 cup condensed milk

½ cup evaporated milk (7 tbsp milk powder + 6 tbsp hot milk)

½ cup cream

1 ½ tsp vanilla extract

¼ cup pineapple/apple/any light-coloured juice with a slight tang

Procedure

1. Dissolve the red jelly crystals and the green jelly crystals in the required amount of water. Let the mixtures cool to room temperature. Then pour them into lightly oiled moulds and chill in the fridge till set firmly.
2. To prepare the milk jelly, dissolve the gelatin in boiling hot water. Let it cool.
3. Whisk the evaporated milk, condensed milk, and the milk cream. Pour the gelatin mix into this and whisk again. Then stir in the vanilla extract and the fruit juice.
4. Chop the chilled red and green jellies into small cubes.
5. Lightly oil a bundt pan or whichever pan in which you have to assemble the jelly pudding.
6. Add a layer of red and green jelly cubes to the base of the pan. Pour some of the milk jelly over this layer. Continue this layering with jelly cubes and the milk jelly.
7. Cover the pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate the cathedral window jelly overnight.
8. Unmould and enjoy!