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Top 10 Filipino Jelly Desserts – Colorfully Sweet and Refreshing

Thinking of making something easy, delicious, light, and refreshing to cool off this summer? Here is a list of Top 10 Filipino Jelly Desserts that we’re sure you’ll love! From creamy modernized popular Filipino desserts, very colorful sweet salads, thirst quenching coolers, and more. These eye catching desserts are perfect for any occasion, we hope you enjoy these colorful jelly treats as much as we do!

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  1. Jelly Flan Recipe
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One of the best Pinoy Desserts. A unique twist on the traditional creamy leche flan. This version is still as indulgent as the original, the only difference is that since you use a gelatin based ‘flan’ in this recipe you won’t need to bake or steam the leche flan. All you need to cook this dessert is a few minutes of simmering in the pan before letting it cool down in the fridge. This combination of creamy smooth custard and gelatin is the perfect easy to do snack to enjoy at home or to bring at parties.

  1. Maja Jelly
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Another traditional dessert made easy with the help of gelatin. It’s 3 times less the effort of making the typical maja blanca where you’ll need to keep stirring the cornstarch batter to avoid the bottom from burning. For this recipe; you only need eater, sugar, gelatin, evaporated milk, condensed milk, cream of corn, and a bit of cornstarch. Mix and simmer for just a few minutes, transfer into a mold, chilled, and it’s ready to be severed. 

  1. Buko Pandan Jelly Dessert
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One of the Best Jelly Desserts you’ll find nearing the Christmas holiday. These are vibrantly green, aromatic, creamy, and refreshing. A Filipino favorite made of fresh shredded coconut meat, coconut juice, all purpose cream or coconut cream, condensed milk, tapioca pearls, nata de coco, and a jelly made of buko pandan gulaman powder, and the pièce de résistance – pandan flavoring. This chilled treat is so beloved you’re sure to find these served at the end of every Filipino Christmas, New Year, or even birthday party meal.

  1. Cathedral Window Gelatin
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A festive and very eye-catching colorful jelly based dessert made by cooling different colored jellies commonly using greens, reds, yellow, oranges, any other color you’d like, sliced into cubes before tossing these layer by layer or at random in a bigger mold. Pouring in a  very creamy and slightly thicker white colored gelatin base to really show off the colors better. A very light quick sweet treat that’s a healthy option for the holiday or party food table. A true Filipino Classic, making this part of the Top 10 Filipino Jelly Desserts.

  1. Sago’t Gulaman
Sago’t Gulaman

This is one of the more common yet absolutely popular coolers you can find made at any household during the summer, fast food chain, and restaurants. A summer refresher made of sweet gulaman cubes made using agar agar powder, duggar, and pandan extract, tapioca pearls, and a sweet sugar syrup that’s sometimes flavored using pandan leaves or extract. The perfect drink to beat the summer heat.

  1. Fruit Jelly Salad
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Another colorful dessert but made even ‘healthier’ with an array of different fruits mixed in. It’s not only a holiday special but a creamy, sometimes frozen treat eaten at the end of birthday parties as an alternative to ice cream. Light and refreshing, this sweet salad is made of a can of strained fruit cocktail, colorful cubed gelatins, tapioca pearls, all purpose cream, condensed milk, and even more fruit.

  1. Mango Jelly
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A Summer favorite. Who doesn’t look for mangoes when summer arrives? This chilled dessert is bursting with sweet tropical goodness. Colorful, light, and easy to make all you need are ripe mangoes, ata de coco, mango flavored gelatin, tapioca pearls, all purpose cream and condensed milk. Satisfy your mango craving with this dessert, which you can also choose to turn into an Yummy ice cold drink with just a bit of evaporated or fresh milk and lots of ice.

For the drink version try this : https://yummykitchentv.com/mango-jelly-drink/ 

  1. Milo Jelly Tapioca
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A jelly dessert that has a delightfully nostalgic taste. A dessert that both kid’s and kids at heart will love. This chocolate-y chewy delight is made with the iconic Milo powder mixed into the gelatin mix, then turned into a syrup to be mixed in with the cream base of the sweet salad, tossing in some tapioca pearls for texture. A guaranteed hit at your next party, or to enjoy all to yourself.

  1. Corn Jelly Dessert
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Similar to the cathedral window jelly but less of a jelly and more of the sweet salad style Filipino desserts are more known for, with the addition of corn kernels. To make this sweet, colorful treat. All you need to mix in are corn kernels, unflavored colored gelatin packs, or the uncolored version which you can simply drop some food coloring into, sugar, tapioca pearls, and sweet or slightly salty cheese to cut through the sweetness. Mix these in a smooth and luscious cream base made of water, sugar, all purpose flour, and condensed milk. This dessert is a perfect balance of refreshingly light and flavorful.

  1. Mango Sago
Mango Sago

We can’t end the Top 10 Filipino Desserts without another Mango dessert. Mango Sago is a tropical treat with a texture that is sometimes pudding-like, or close to a panna cotta. In this version, you’ll only need five ingredients; mangoes, evaporated milk, condensed milk, sweetened cream, and tapioca pearls. A simple dessert that’s perfect for cooling down your sweet fruity-mango cravings.

What’s you’re favorite Filipino dessert? Is it in our list of Top 10 Filipino Jelly Desserts? Let us know all about you’re favorite Filipino Jelly Dessert in the comments!

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