The Art of Making Jelly Crystal Candies

We're going to start by making these jelly crystal candies and we're going to make about an hour's worth of them up to about three hours when the jellies have set. We'll take the jelly out of the mold, and you might need a knife to break the pieces into nice little shards so they look like pieces of rock. You can also use a knife to shape the pieces into facets so they look more like crystals.

We're going to place the pieces onto a piece of parchment and allow these to dry at this point. I thought the Japanese agar agar was a complete fail because it was totally soft and gushy, i let it set for four hours and it wasn't getting any firmer but i went ahead and ripped up the chunks and allowed it to dry on some parchment paper just to see what would happen. So these need to dry for at least two days up to four days and they'll develop a nice crystalline crunchy shell on the outside and they'll begin to look more like stone.

All right so here we are three days later and here are my beautiful crystals and they're so so gorgeous, they're transparent and they look like gemstones, they're so beautiful i love the ones that are shaped also like the ones that were just torn as well beautiful beautiful beautiful finish. I am so surprised how rock-like they turned out so the ones that were made with the Japanese agar agar weren't entirely a complete failure they kind of looked blobbish i actually crushed them a little bit so they would have a little bit more facets then as you can see they're very squishy still in the middle but there is a nice sugary coating on the outside.

The colors were much more vibrant in the Japanese agar than the Thai Bar which were a little more cloudy, but these look much more like rocks and listen to this crunch isn't that wonderful when i was a kid i loved collecting rocks i was fascinated by crystals and i want to make some kind of rock collection cake or something but i haven't really figured all out so i don't expect these are going to taste like much because there's just sugar and water in here after all. But i didn't want to mess with the recipe yet until i perfected this so in my next attempts i'm going to try using 7up or some other kind of flavored drink.

So let's give this a taste itadakimasu and as i predicted they don't taste like much they just taste like pure sugar, the texture of them is pretty incredible they have a beautiful crunchy sugary exterior that has a beautiful crackly feel to them and inside is a nice jelly a little bit firmer than a jello but a jelly still. This is what i mean about the texture let me show you up close look at that that's what they look like inside nice and jellied and they have this crunchy crunchy sugary coating on the outside amazing.

Let's crunch another one so just so you can hear a crunch ready these don't taste very good at all in fact they don't have much of a taste at all they just taste like sugar kind of like the raindrop cake in the sense that they're just so stunning but then when you actually have it they're kind of a disappointment although i think there's a lot of room and improvement for this recipe. Just add a little bit of juice as i said or some flavoring and then you've actually got something that's more palatable.

But gorgeous just absolutely stunning let me taste one of these so let me show you this up close this is much softer as you can see they just kind of just break but look how beautifully crystal clear that is. See much goopier and jelliered but let's give that a go that actually has a really nice crunch to it more of a shardy glassier crunch on the exterior than the other version although it's very very mushy in the middle i think this just needs to be tweaked in terms of the amount of agar agar powder perhaps i need to cook this longer so the jelly is more concentrated.

This definitely has its potential but it needs to be kind of worked out these are gorgeous and super fun to make i would highly recommend making them with your children look for the telephone brand this definitely was the winner here although this makes me want to reattempt the raindrop cake because it was just so beautifully clear two different types of agar agar different applications thank you guys so much for joining me i hope you guys enjoyed that one i hope you guys learned something and big thanks again for those of you that suggested to make this if you have any other ideas or suggestions please send them my way.

You can find me right here and yeah share this video with your friends follow me on social media you know right here and i shall see you in my next one.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello my beautiful lovelies hi it's emmy welcome back today i'm going to be making ko hakuto so this was brought to my attention by many of you thank you guys so much for sending me links and information about this because i had no idea and existed and when i saw it i knew i had to make it because they are spectacular so basically what kokoto are are edible gems or rocks that are jelly on the inside and crystallized sugar on the outside they're soft and squishy yet hard and crystalline on the outside so this is a super simple recipe in terms of ingredients there are only three you need water agar agar and sugar so agar agar is a vegetarian gelatin or jelly i've used it in a couple recipes including my beautiful raindrop cake and my unicorn jelly cake which was the vietnamese araucao and so it's a very interesting jelly and a great alternative if you're vegetarian so what i have here are two different versions in the past i've used this and this is the telephone brand agar agar powder and it comes from thailand well this one this is a japanese version so as an experiment i'm going to test out both brands of agar agar powder and compare the results for you scientists out there i should also mention this is the same agar agar that is used in the bottom of petri dishes to grow colonies of viruses and bacteria it is the jelly medium found in the bottom of petri dishes i believe this is originally a japanese recipe but there are a lot of korean how-to videos on how to make this so i watched a bunch i looked at a lot of blog posts to come up with this recipe and this technique so come along with me and i'll show you what i did to make these gorgeous gorgeous edible gemstones click on the link in the description to find the exact recipe mats once the powder has dissolved into the water we're going to bring this to a boil and boil it for three or four minutes and then we're going to add our sugar lots of sugar now we really want to incorporate the sugar and have this dissolve as well so boil this for another three or four minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved so next we're going to prepare our tray i'm just using some glass storage containers use a little bit of oil and rub it on the inside of the glass so the jelly will come out a little easier now we're going to pour our hot jelly into our greased containers so at this point if we compare the two jellies the japanese one has a beautiful clarity just crystal clear and a really nice kind of jellied consistency the thai version is not as clear and it is a little bit more runny pour a good thickness i would say at least half an inch to three quarters of an inch in depth so now for the fun part we're gonna add some food coloring and many of the videos i watched they used gel food coloring but i used gel and liquid and i found both of them worked equally well you don't need much here just add one or two drops of your food coloring and use a stick to kind of swirl that in so you can mix it really well to get an even homogeneous color or you can leave it a little bit swirled or layered that leaves a really beautiful jelly so i suggest doing a little bit of both mix and swirl any colors you want i used a couple of our own stones for my son's rock collections for reference but i found any vibrant color actually makes beautiful beautiful gems so now we're going to place these into the refrigerator and allow them to set at least an hour up to about three hours when the jellies have set we're going to take them out of the fridge now we're going to take the jelly out of the mold you might need a knife and then we're just going to break the pieces into nice little shards so they look like pieces of rock and you can also use a knife and shape the pieces into facets so they look more like crystals we're going to place the pieces onto a piece of parchment and we're going to allow these to dry at this point i thought the japanese agar agar was a complete fail because it was totally totally soft and gushy i let it set for four hours and it wasn't getting any firmer but i went ahead and ripped up the chunks and allowed it to dry on some parchment paper just to see what would happen so these need to dry for at least two days up to four days and they'll develop a nice crystally crunchy shell on the outside and they'll begin to look more like stone all right so here we are three days later and here are my beautiful crystals and they're so so gorgeous they're transparent and they look like gemstones they're so beautiful i love the ones that are shaped also like the ones that were just torn as well beautiful beautiful beautiful finish i am so surprised how rock-like they turned out so the ones that were made with the japanese agar agar weren't entirely a complete failure they kind of looked blobbish i actually crushed them a little bit so they would have a little bit more facets then as you can see they're very squishy still in the middle but there is a nice sugary coating on the outside the colors were much more vibrant in the japanese agar than the thai bar which were a little more cloudy but these look much more like rocks and listen to this crunch isn't that wonderful when i was a kid i loved collecting rocks i was fascinated by crystals and i want to make some kind of rock collection cake or something but i haven't really figured all out so i don't expect these are going to taste like much because there's just sugar and water in here after all but i didn't want to mess with the recipe yet until i perfected this so in my next attempts i'm going to try using 7up or some other kind of flavored drink so let's give this a taste itadakimasu and as i predicted they don't taste like much they just taste like pure sugar the texture of them is pretty incredible they have a beautiful crunchy sugary exterior that has a beautiful crackly feel to them and inside is a nice jelly a little bit firmer than a jello but a jelly still this is what i mean about the texture let me show you up close look at that that's what they look like inside nice and jellied and they have this crunchy crunchy sugary coating on the outside amazing let's crunch another one so just so you can hear a crunch ready these don't taste very good at all in fact they don't have much of a taste at all they just taste like sugar kind of like the raindrop cake in the sense that they're just so stunning but then when you actually have it they're kind of a disappointment although i think there's a lot of room and improvement for this recipe just add a little bit of juice as i said or some flavoring and then you've actually got something that's more palatable but gorgeous just absolutely stunning let me taste one of these so let me show you this up close this is much softer as you can see they just kind of just break but look how beautifully crystal clear that is see much goopier and jelliered but let's give that a go that actually has a really nice crunch to it more of a shardy glassier crunch on the exterior than the other version although it's very very mushy in the middle i think this just needs to be tweaked in terms of the amount of agar agar powder perhaps i need to cook this longer so the jelly is more concentrated this definitely has its potential but it needs to be kind of worked out these are gorgeous and super fun to make i would highly recommend making them with your children look for the telephone brand this definitely was the winner here although this makes me want to reattempt the raindrop cake because it was just so beautifully clear two different types of agar agar different applications thank you guys so much for joining me i hope you guys enjoyed that one i hope you guys learned something and big thanks again for those of you that suggested to make this if you have any other ideas or suggestions please send them my way you can find me right here and yeah share this video with your friends follow me on social media you know right here and i shall see you in my next one toodaloo take care bye i was like a worthy woman's neckhello my beautiful lovelies hi it's emmy welcome back today i'm going to be making ko hakuto so this was brought to my attention by many of you thank you guys so much for sending me links and information about this because i had no idea and existed and when i saw it i knew i had to make it because they are spectacular so basically what kokoto are are edible gems or rocks that are jelly on the inside and crystallized sugar on the outside they're soft and squishy yet hard and crystalline on the outside so this is a super simple recipe in terms of ingredients there are only three you need water agar agar and sugar so agar agar is a vegetarian gelatin or jelly i've used it in a couple recipes including my beautiful raindrop cake and my unicorn jelly cake which was the vietnamese araucao and so it's a very interesting jelly and a great alternative if you're vegetarian so what i have here are two different versions in the past i've used this and this is the telephone brand agar agar powder and it comes from thailand well this one this is a japanese version so as an experiment i'm going to test out both brands of agar agar powder and compare the results for you scientists out there i should also mention this is the same agar agar that is used in the bottom of petri dishes to grow colonies of viruses and bacteria it is the jelly medium found in the bottom of petri dishes i believe this is originally a japanese recipe but there are a lot of korean how-to videos on how to make this so i watched a bunch i looked at a lot of blog posts to come up with this recipe and this technique so come along with me and i'll show you what i did to make these gorgeous gorgeous edible gemstones click on the link in the description to find the exact recipe mats once the powder has dissolved into the water we're going to bring this to a boil and boil it for three or four minutes and then we're going to add our sugar lots of sugar now we really want to incorporate the sugar and have this dissolve as well so boil this for another three or four minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved so next we're going to prepare our tray i'm just using some glass storage containers use a little bit of oil and rub it on the inside of the glass so the jelly will come out a little easier now we're going to pour our hot jelly into our greased containers so at this point if we compare the two jellies the japanese one has a beautiful clarity just crystal clear and a really nice kind of jellied consistency the thai version is not as clear and it is a little bit more runny pour a good thickness i would say at least half an inch to three quarters of an inch in depth so now for the fun part we're gonna add some food coloring and many of the videos i watched they used gel food coloring but i used gel and liquid and i found both of them worked equally well you don't need much here just add one or two drops of your food coloring and use a stick to kind of swirl that in so you can mix it really well to get an even homogeneous color or you can leave it a little bit swirled or layered that leaves a really beautiful jelly so i suggest doing a little bit of both mix and swirl any colors you want i used a couple of our own stones for my son's rock collections for reference but i found any vibrant color actually makes beautiful beautiful gems so now we're going to place these into the refrigerator and allow them to set at least an hour up to about three hours when the jellies have set we're going to take them out of the fridge now we're going to take the jelly out of the mold you might need a knife and then we're just going to break the pieces into nice little shards so they look like pieces of rock and you can also use a knife and shape the pieces into facets so they look more like crystals we're going to place the pieces onto a piece of parchment and we're going to allow these to dry at this point i thought the japanese agar agar was a complete fail because it was totally totally soft and gushy i let it set for four hours and it wasn't getting any firmer but i went ahead and ripped up the chunks and allowed it to dry on some parchment paper just to see what would happen so these need to dry for at least two days up to four days and they'll develop a nice crystally crunchy shell on the outside and they'll begin to look more like stone all right so here we are three days later and here are my beautiful crystals and they're so so gorgeous they're transparent and they look like gemstones they're so beautiful i love the ones that are shaped also like the ones that were just torn as well beautiful beautiful beautiful finish i am so surprised how rock-like they turned out so the ones that were made with the japanese agar agar weren't entirely a complete failure they kind of looked blobbish i actually crushed them a little bit so they would have a little bit more facets then as you can see they're very squishy still in the middle but there is a nice sugary coating on the outside the colors were much more vibrant in the japanese agar than the thai bar which were a little more cloudy but these look much more like rocks and listen to this crunch isn't that wonderful when i was a kid i loved collecting rocks i was fascinated by crystals and i want to make some kind of rock collection cake or something but i haven't really figured all out so i don't expect these are going to taste like much because there's just sugar and water in here after all but i didn't want to mess with the recipe yet until i perfected this so in my next attempts i'm going to try using 7up or some other kind of flavored drink so let's give this a taste itadakimasu and as i predicted they don't taste like much they just taste like pure sugar the texture of them is pretty incredible they have a beautiful crunchy sugary exterior that has a beautiful crackly feel to them and inside is a nice jelly a little bit firmer than a jello but a jelly still this is what i mean about the texture let me show you up close look at that that's what they look like inside nice and jellied and they have this crunchy crunchy sugary coating on the outside amazing let's crunch another one so just so you can hear a crunch ready these don't taste very good at all in fact they don't have much of a taste at all they just taste like sugar kind of like the raindrop cake in the sense that they're just so stunning but then when you actually have it they're kind of a disappointment although i think there's a lot of room and improvement for this recipe just add a little bit of juice as i said or some flavoring and then you've actually got something that's more palatable but gorgeous just absolutely stunning let me taste one of these so let me show you this up close this is much softer as you can see they just kind of just break but look how beautifully crystal clear that is see much goopier and jelliered but let's give that a go that actually has a really nice crunch to it more of a shardy glassier crunch on the exterior than the other version although it's very very mushy in the middle i think this just needs to be tweaked in terms of the amount of agar agar powder perhaps i need to cook this longer so the jelly is more concentrated this definitely has its potential but it needs to be kind of worked out these are gorgeous and super fun to make i would highly recommend making them with your children look for the telephone brand this definitely was the winner here although this makes me want to reattempt the raindrop cake because it was just so beautifully clear two different types of agar agar different applications thank you guys so much for joining me i hope you guys enjoyed that one i hope you guys learned something and big thanks again for those of you that suggested to make this if you have any other ideas or suggestions please send them my way you can find me right here and yeah share this video with your friends follow me on social media you know right here and i shall see you in my next one toodaloo take care bye i was like a worthy woman's neck\n"