When I was a kid...

[Tinks]

This old lady we knew used to make an awesome sponge cake with jelly in the middle. I have never been able to master it and have never been able to find out how to do it in a google search!

How on earth do you get the jelly in the middle? I've tried setting the jelly in a cake tin then placing it in the middle but it's not the same, it comes apart, her cakes never came apart. I've tried putting cooled but not set jelly in it but it soaks into the cake.

Does anyone know how to do it??

[Astrid]

This has got me fascinated. I like making sponge cakes. Hope someone knows.

[Epacris]

Was she like a magical old good witch or something?

[New Dawn]

I wish it sounds yummy... I have always wanted to make jelly slice, you know the ines with jelly on top normally red Yum!

[Trillian]

I reckon she would have made her cakes, let them cool and then made the jelly and let it half set so it was just starting to set, then put one cake back in the tin, put the jelly on top and then the other cake on top of the jelly and then all of it into the fridge to set it.

[Pandora]

Mum has done jelly cake but it's sponge on the bottom and jelly in top, no top layer of sponge

[Phteven]

Maybe she piped it in....

[PumpkinZulu]

Set the jelly, make the sponge...uhhh...cut a thin layer off the bottom...hollow out middle of cake...insert jelly...put cake back together!??

Lol that's too crazy and elaborate! I have no idea, but it sounds magical and delicious!

[~clover~]

I was going to say she may've piped it in (but the only word I could think of for it was suringe )

[Raupe]

After you've baked the cake, you take the cake out of the tin and put it aside. Clean the tin and then pour the jelly in the tin. Put the tin with the jelly in the freezer (just make sure you've got a tin where you can remove the bottom). Remove tin from freezer (once jelly is frozen solid) and remove the jelly from the tin. Now assemble the cake! You can do that in the tin if you want, but it's not necessary.

Basically, cut the cake in two layers, and put frozen jelly in the middle! That way the jelly won't fall apart!
HTH

[New Dawn]

I reckon she would have made her cakes, let them cool and then made the jelly and let it half set so it was just starting to set, then put one cake back in the tin, put the jelly on top and then the other cake on top of the jelly and then all of it into the fridge to set it.

this sounds like the best way, hurry up and make it and let us know if it works... I cant bake but might buy myself a sponge cake from woolies tomorrow and put some jelly in it

[Trillian]

I"m tempted to make one and see if it works too LOL. But I wont have time till monday. I reckon too that the jelly would set firmer if you used slightly less water than you were supposed to use. Setting it like that would mean the cake and jelly would stay together.

[Tinks]

Good idea. You could probably add a little bit of gelatin as well to make it firmer.

I didn't mean the jelly doesn't stay together, I mean the cake was stuck to the jelly.

[Astrid]

I agree with the less water in the jelly. A quick google show that 1 1/2 cups of water seems to be used. Normally jelly is made with just under 2 cups of water.

[LionsandBears]

So there were 2 layers of sponge with jelly in the middle? Sounds yummy.

I googled jello sponge cake and found some interesting options. One where you soak the bottom sponge layer in jelly, them cover with fruit before adding the top layer then refrigerating. One which was a layer of sponge, strawberry mousse then strawberry jelly - hmmm.

A tip i read was use less boiling water than normal. Once the crystals are dissolved add a cup of ice. Once the jelly is thick but not frozen, pour it over the sponge. Then refrigerate.

Let us know how you go.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

Did she spread jam over the inside of the sponges, to keep the jelly stuck to the sponge?

[Tinks]

Not that I remember Keike.

I'm going to pinch a sponge from work tonight and see if I can perfect the jelly filled sponge. If I do I will post pics for everyone.

[~Lashes~]

sounds interestingly yummy....