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Gelatin Aquarium Learn how to make a gelatin aquarium that will delight your children. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-133

Guest Clare Crespo joins host Jennifer Perkins and demonstrates how to make a unique dessert — a gelatin aquarium stocked with swimming gummy fish.

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Create this one-of-a-kind dessert — a gelatin aquarium.

Gelatin Aquarium

Project designed by Clare Crespo.

Materials:

eight 7-gram packets of gelatin (plus the ingredients marked on packet to make gelatin)
blue food coloring
1 can (11 oz.) fruit cocktail
2 plastic fish (or gummy fish)
1 plastic aquarium plant
mixing bowl
hot water
mixing spoon

1. Fill your fish bowl with water to see how much gelatin to make.

2. Make gelatin according to packets. Add a few drops of blue food coloring. Pour into goldfish bowl. You could use Jell-o also.

3. Drain the fruit cocktail and slowly pour it into the goldfish bowl. It will sink to the bottom and act as the "gravel."

4. Place the bowl in the refrigerator to thicken (for about an hour). Don't let it set completely.

5. Remove from the refrigerator and place the fish in the gelatin using a chopstick, knife or the back of the spoon to push the fish toward the bottom of the bowl. Do the same with the aquarium plant.

6. Return the bowl to the refrigerator and let set completely.

7. When the gelatin is ready to serve, use a spoon to scoop it and the fish out. If you are using plastic fish, make sure to set them aside.

RESOURCES :

The Secret Life of Food and Hey There, Cupcake! 35 Yummy Fun Cupcake Recipes for All Occasions
by Clare Crespo
ISBN: 0-7868-0846-2
Hyperion Books

GUESTS :

Clare Crespo
Food Artist and Author
Website: www.yummyfun.com