Just For Fun...Jello Aquarium

I ran across this picture while looking for an interesting article or image to share with you today. It's a Jello Aquarium. I couldn't find the original instructions or ingredents, but it appears they used glass fish.

Needless to say, I thought this would be a cute idea to use for children's parties or other occasions. I found numerous recipes on Google. Some used a goldfish bowl like in our picture and some used individual clear plastic cups for individual servings. Overall, they all called for the same basic ingredients. :)

Jello Aquarium Recipe

Ingredients:
goldfish bowl -- new and clean
red hots or Jelly Belly gravel beans
blue Jello
ice cubes
cold water
purple endive
parsley sprigs
gummy fish

Directions:
Use a new or well cleaned goldfish bowl. In the bottom, the original recipe called for red-hots as the 'gravel', but I plan to use the Jelly Belly beans that look like rocks. Mix up as much blue Jello as your bowl will hold. Mix using ice cubes & cold water instead of the cold water called for on the box. Pour this into the bowl over a knife blade or something to keep from disturbing the gravel. If you want it to have 'seaweed', poke a couple of pieces of purple endive or something similar down into the gravel. When the whole thing starts to jell, use a wooden skewer to push gummy fish into different parts of the bowl.