This fun recipe is a non-alcoholic variation on Butterscotch Jello Shots. It can serve as a tasty treat or dessert, a welcome break and distraction from your clear liquid diet regime.
Prepping for a colonoscopy or surgery is hard work, and let’s be real, even just half a day into your clear liquid diet, you’ll already feel overdue for a break.
Treat yourself, without even breaking your diet. To make you feel better about all that sugar and deliciousness, just remember that the gelatin in these butterscotch jellies will also give you a protein boost. Not that we recommend you fill up on these since there is quite a lot of sugar from the cream soda and syrup. Just a few pieces!
This recipe is a non-alcoholic variation on the famous Butterscotch Jello Shots. However, resist the temptation to add alcohol during your colonoscopy prep, since alcohol is strictly off-limits and can interfere with the procedure in serious ways.
However, when and if you can drink alcohol again, you might like to give the original boozy version a try. For the alcoholic version, you use Butterscotch Schnapps instead of butterscotch syrup, and swap the lemon juice for Vodka. Pour the jellies into shot glasses to set, and and for a touch of fun, decorate it with colorful sprinkles.
Sorry vegans, unfortunately this recipe is not for you, and you can’t substitute gelatin for agar-agar on a clear liquid diet because agar-agar has fiber.
Butterscotch Jello Bites recipe for clear liquid diet
Cooking Time: 20 minutes + 4 hours refrigeration time
Servings: 24 pieces
Ingredients
- 60mL butterscotch-flavored syrup
- 1 cup (240mL) cream soda
- 2 envelopes (1/2 oz / 14g) gelatin powder
- 30mL lemon juice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Method
- In a medium saucepan, combine the cream soda and gelatin. Rest for a few minutes, to allow it to soften.
- Gently heat the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly until gelatin has fully dissolved. Do not boil. Remove from heat.
- Stir in vanilla, lemon juice and butterscotch syrup. Taste and adjust the flavor as desired.
- Pour mixture into a mold of your choice. For example, 9×5 loaf pan with straight edges, jars or shot glasses.
- Refrigerate for about 4 hours or until the jello is completely set.
- Cut the jello into cubes and serve. Keep chilled.
Nutritional Info: Calories: 103cal, Protein: 12g, Carbohydrate: 7g, Fat: 3g
