Jasmine tea and mandarin jelly cups with strawberries

About a week ago, I discovered this blog called raspberri cupcakes (http://www.raspberricupcakes.com/) and may I just say.. it has some of the yummiest looking desserts I have seen. I wanted to eat them off the screen! But obviously that is impossible.. so I went out to make one of the easiest ones on the blog because I'm a terrible cook/chef/baker! So, I tried out her '

Mandarin & Jasmine Tea Cup Jellies with Raspberries' recipe. It's an easy recipe, for in my case.. it was even easier because I didn't have the gelatin or agar agar powder, so I opted out for the old 'create-your-own aeroplane jelly' stuff! 

I've included some images of how my jellies turned out. Obviously my photo shooting skills aren't amazing, anddddddd the quality isn't that great either (point and shoot camera). 

 Here is the recipe from raspberri cupcake's blog: (with her images included - well.. how the cup SHOULD look like..)

Mandarin & Jasmine Tea Cup Jellies with Raspberries

(makes approximately 4 tea cup jellies)

Juice of 2-3 fresh mandarins (about 1/3 cup) plus extra mandarin to decorate (can be replaced with fresh orange juice)

1 tbsp powdered gelatine (can be replaced with agar)

1 tbsp sugar

400ml (approx 1 & 2/3 cups) boiling water

1 tsp jasmine tea leaves (can be replaced with other tea - e.g. green tea or earl grey)

1 punnet fresh raspberries (can be replaced with other berries)

Place boiling water and tea leaves in a bowl and leave to steep until it is strong enough to your liking, at least 10 mins. In a small saucepan, stir together gelatine, sugar and mandarin juice and leave for 1 minute while gelatine softens. Place over medium heat and stir until gelatine is completely dissolved, about 6-8 minutes.

Strain tea to remove leaves and stir in gelatine mixture. (Feel free to adjust the balance of flavours to taste at this point) Pour mixture into tea cup, add a few rasberries to each tea cup. Chill in the refrigerator until set, at least  2 hours or overnight. When ready to serve, remove from the fridge and top with extra mandarin slices and raspberries. Can be stored in the fridge for a couple days.

Enjoy! xx

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hi! at the moment i'm probably writing to no one but myself.. because this account has been on idle for over a year! so i'm sorry.. (to anyone who may be reading_so in advance, sorry if this post is confusing, cause i didn't expect you to be reading this! but then again, thankyou!)

okay so basically, i have just finished my firsssssssst semester of uni!!! yayyyyyy! i am so excited, i only had to do one exam :) :) and now its over! i discovered this super cool app on itunes a couple of weeks ago, and it helped with my study so much! you should try it out;)

its this app called: FLASHCARDS. yup. that's it. flashcards! and although i have tried this method out many times (and have failed), this one actually seemed to work because its easy! all you have to do is go onto a site called quizlet, and it asks you to put in your word and definition. but because i'm studying architecture, i for example, entered "10 steps to making a reinforced concrete slab" then typed the 10 steps into the 'definition box', and it was so cool, because i felt that when i entered the 'words and definitions' into the boxes i had already begun revising! awesome.

erm, so you know how sometimes when you have to explain something to someone, you have to know a little bit more than what you're trying to explain to them in order to coherently get it across? (who knows if that made sense or not..) well! i find that's what happens anyway.. but because of this, this flashcards app helped me to explain it to myself better, and it helped.. a superduperlot! the lite version of the app is free, it allows you to create 3 decks with 75 cards each.. and in my experience there's no word limit for each card. so go crazy!

so, if you have a little spare time, why not give it a go before your next exam, it might just work for you!:)

love, the girl who just finished her exam! (wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo)