Day 8 ‘Get Your Jelly On’: Blood orange jelly with strawberry and dark chocolate dust

Blood orange jelly with strawberry and chocolate dust

* This post is part of  the Royal Selangor Jellyriffic Competition where ten bloggers from around the world compete by posting recipes each day for 30 days in the month of October 2011 to raise awareness and support for breast cancer. *

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Red is the colour of lust and sin. And red also signifies blood, passion and sexuality.

Red is also my favourite colour because in music, I see dark and passionate tones of red in the keys of A flat major and A minor. Music written in these keys are often soulful and passionate.

Liszt’s Liebestraum (Dreams of Love) and Chopin’s Aeolian Harp etude are both composed in the key of A flat major. Rachmaninoff’s dark and mysterious Etude Opus 39 no. 6, otherwise known as the “Little Red Riding Hood” etude is in the key of A minor.

Blood oranges are in season at the moment, and so are strawberries. I love blood oranges not for its flavours but because they have such an intense and vibrant colour. Every orange looks different with its blushes of red and crimson hues. They are usually more expensive than Australian navels but when I saw them in our local supermarket, I knew we had to make something out of them.

So what’s the connection between colours, music and fruits you may ask?

Well, this next recipe is my interpretation of a dessert to showcase the passion of the Spanish people, their proud tradition for the blood sport of bull-fighting and a never-say-die attitude in their hearts. Chocolate is also one of the most important ingredients in Spanish cooking so I have combined all these elements of passion to bring you the first dessert in our Cuisines of the World journey with the Royal Selangor jelly mould.

We thought our Spanish entree post was fiery but you will agree this corresponding dessert has even more fire and passion in it.

Day 8: Dessert – Blood orange jelly with strawberry and dark chocolate dust

Blood orange jelly with strawberry and chocolate dust

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We really enjoyed this dessert because the citrusy blood orange contrasts beautifully with the sweet jelly. Small bits of chocolate dust added textural contrast and a different sweet complexity.

Blood orange jelly with strawberry and chocolate dust

So dear readers, do you have a favourite dessert?

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We wish you good health and happy cooking!

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