When Nate and I first discussed taking part in Royal Selangor’s “Get Your Jelly On” challenge, we were not sure if we could blog every day for a whole month. I was more uncertain of creating jellies for a whole month.

If you are a long-time follower of our blog, you will have noticed that I hardly make jellies. There was only one recipe on our blog for Rainbow Jello and that was it. It’s not that I don’t make jellies, it’s that most of the time, I just use ready made jelly powders and serve it once it’s firm. There’s nothing much to blog about that.

However, now that we’ve been challenged to do this, it’s been quite fun brain-storming ideas on what we can do with these molds. We’ve been thinking about all types of different ways to use the molds (and some of them include non-jelly recipes). Generally, I figured that anything that is good to drink is probably also good to eat as a jelly. As I thought of that, I wanted to try making this particular jelly–Sirap Selasih or Rose syrup with holy basil seeds.

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