Recipe: Yummy Cherry blossom pudding

Cherry blossom pudding. Pour the mixture to cover the cherry blossoms on top of milk pudding. If you want the cherry blossoms to look bloomed, scoop the flower with the liquid mixture in a big spoon and pour onto top of the milk pudding. Keep in the refrigerator till the top layer is set (about an hour).

One of Japanese national flowers, cherry blossom. beautiful to view and flavorful to taste. Soak the gelatin in the hot water and mix it well. Put some water in a bowl and soak the cherry blossoms to remove salt. You can have Cherry blossom pudding using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cherry blossom pudding

1. It's of sugar.
2. Prepare of gelatin powder.
3. Prepare of hot water.
4. Prepare of salted cherry blossoms.
5. You need of food color (red), if desired.

Put the soy milk and sugar in a pot and put it on medium-high heat. Turn off the heat right before it gets boiled up. The pink layer tastes like sakura mochi, and is just irresistible for cherry blossom lovers. Soak the salt-preserved cherry blossoms for as long as possible to infuse the milk.

Cherry blossom pudding step by step

1. Soak the gelatin in the hot water and mix it well. Put some water in a bowl and soak the cherry blossoms to remove salt..
2. Put the soy milk and sugar in a pot and put it on medium-high heat. Stir once in a while. Turn off the heat right before it gets boiled up..
3. Add gelatin mixture into the pot and mix well. If you want to tint the pudding nice pink color, add the food color as well. Pour it into pudding cups..
4. Take out the cherry blossoms from the water, dry them well with paper towels. Leave 5 pieces aside to be used as toppings. Remove stems from the rest and chopped them up..
5. Add the chopped cherry blossoms into each cups and stir gently. Chill them for 3 hours..
6. Once they gets harden enough, make a space between the pudding and the cup along the edges with using a tooth pick. Slide the pudding on to a plate by turning it upside down and top with cherry blossoms..

The pudding will set when it is chilled, so the point is to keep stirring until it starts setting. Wash salted cherry blossoms with water to remove all of the salt. In a small microwavable cup, mix gelatin and water. In a small pot, heat the rest of the water and sugar over medium heat. When the milk pudding is set, start making the Sakura layer.