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How To Make Jelly Glow With Black Light And Tonic Water
If you are looking to make a special treat for Halloween or a late night treat. You should have a go at making jelly appear to glow in the dark. Just use tonic water and black light to create this party trick. The children especially love this unique treat.
What you'll need:
1 packet gelatine
1 ½ cups sugar
2 ½ cups tonic water
Sauce pan
Spoon
Jelly mould
Black light
1:
Pour tonic water into pan and bring to boil.
2:
Add the gelatine and stir with spoon. Add the sugar bit by bit and keep stirring until dissolved.
3:
When mixture has boiled, remove from the heat. Pour into jelly mould and refrigerate until set.
4:
Prepare serving room with black light. Use a black light bulb if you want.
5:
When jelly is set, serve to guests in set up black light room. The jelly will be a blue glow under the black light.
Conclusion:
This a really cool jelly trick to perform and your guests will appreciate the effort. You can use any gelatine colour and it will glow under black light because of the quinine ingredient in tonic water.
Tips:
You can add alcohol to the above ingredient if you want.
You can make the jelly without sugar. Remember it might taste bitter without the sugar added.
You can mould the jelly in plastic cutters shaped like stars for example.
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