The winner of our first jello week jello contest is Tami Utley for her gelatin bubbles! Congratulations Tami!
*Voting for jiggling Jello posts is now closed. You can still comment on your favorite though, we love to get comments!
We have decided to celebrate Jello Week by posting top Jiggling Jello posts from around the web! We found these fabulous Jello blog posts and have let the bloggers/jello masters know that they have been selected for our contest. Vote for your favorite in a comment on this post or on our facebook page and the winner will receive a grand Jello prize!
Now for our contestants….
Great tutorial for Gelatin Bubbles from… These go on our must make list from, Tami Utley sugar art.
A beautiful key lime pie from, Bonzai beadwear.
These look positively refreshing and delicious from, Yin Mom Yang Mom
So, so gross; but perfect for Halloween from, workmanfamily.
We love this candy-corn Jello. Perfect for Thanksgiving! We also love that they are a mello-jello shot (non-alcoholic) From, Jelly shot test kitchen.
If you haven’t heard of strawberry pretzel Jello, you might want to check your pulse. Recipes abound on the web. Here is a different spin: a gluten free version from, feeding-a-bunch-a-munchkins.
Classic Broken Glass Jello from… I think I need to make this up for Mardi Gras with purple, yellow, blue, green. Super job! Just Jen recipes
Seriously- Food Librarian, you are a Jello Master! I thought this was soap. Superb! The Food Librarian.
This is so elegant. A romantic dessert for your sweetie on Valentines. If you live in the U.S.A. you’ll have to convert this one from, La Mia Vita Dolce.
Here’s a Jello with love written all over it. What a clever idea from, The hungry housewife.
I know the clock is ticking and you might be thinking that you don’t have time to make any Jello for your Valentine, but you do! Because you add ice cream to the Jello, it will set up faster. If you don’t want to cut it into heart shapes, you can put it in a small bowl or individual containers like we did here, it only takes about an hour to set up.
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream heart Jello
If you are still looking for ideas on what to make your Valentine, here is a list of ideas that we have made in the past. Just click on the link above the picture for the recipe.
*There is still time to vote for the Jello Week Jello contest, vote now here: Jello week contest
Sparkling Love Potion
Valentine Cake Balls
Valentine S’mores
Striping for Valentines
Jelly “fruit” snacks
Red Hot Valentines
Every year for my Birthday as long as I can remember, my mom has made me this delicious Raspberry Dessert. My Birthday happens to be the day before Valentines. But for people that don’t have their birthday so close to Valentines, this is a great dessert to make for your Valentine. I usually would prefer something chocolate for dessert, but this really is non-chocolate perfection!
Raspberry Dessert
(This recipe makes two pans of dessert)
Cake:
2 C. Flour
1 ½ C. Sugar
3 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Salt
½ C. Butter (cut up)
1 C. Milk
2 Eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
Preheat oven to 350. Mix dry ingredients together. Add cut-up butter and 2/3 cup milk. Beat 2 minutes at low speed. Add remaining milk, eggs and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes more. Pour batter into two greased 9×13 pans. Bake 30-35 minutes. Cool.
Filling:
2- 8oz. Pkg. Cream cheese, softened.
2 envelopes dream whip, prepared. Add to cream cheese and beat.
2 C. powdered sugar. Beat into above mixture.
Spread on cake and let chill for 1 hour
Topping:
3 packages Danish dessert mix
1 package frozen raspberries. You can add more depending on how much you like raspberries.
Prepare according to pie filling directions on back of package. Add raspberries and cool, but don’t set. When cool, spread on top of cream cheese mixture. Chill until set-overnight is best. (The above picture was not chilled so top is a more soft set)
*If you don’t know what Danish Dessert, and Dream whip are here are some pictures. I usually find them in the jello section of the grocery store.
*For more jello Valentines ideas check out our other Valentines posts by clicking on the Valentines link in the sidebar on the left.
Now go and make some Raspberry Dessert for your Valentine and enjoy some Jello Joy!
The other day I was browsing around on Pinterest and I came across this pin of a old Dole Pineapple advertisement.
My first thought was why haven’t I ever thought of this? So I decided then and there that I must try it! It really couldn’t be easier to make and my kids thought that it was the best Jello that I had ever made. I credit that to the cool visual effect- kids dig it. Recently I made 6 cans for a family dinner: 2 with blue Jello, 1 with orange Jello, 1 with lemon Jello, 1 with lime Jello and one with red Jello. I liked the look of the green the best, but they all tasted good. After all of that, we were snowed in and stuck with 6 cans of pineapple Jello.
Nifty Jello in a Can
Pour out liquid from a can of sliced pineapple and discard.
Dissolve a 3oz. box of lime Jello in 1 cup boiling water (you could also use the pineapple juice and water to equal 1 cup liquid)
Pour hot Jello water over pineapple rings in the can.
Chill until set. Run hot water on the sides and bottom of can to loosen. Then cut the bottom of the can and push the mold out. Cut between pineapple slices and serve.
*Optional: top a slice with an ice cream scoop of cottage cheese or a dollop of whipped cream.
*You could also do this with other canned fruit and flavors of Jello, but you would lose the nifty pineapple ring effect.
Now Go Can Some Jello and Have a Nifty Night!
If you have read our blog before you know that Jello Girl and I don’t imbibe. But with all the pretty jello shots out there on the internet, we felt left out. Hence, we have decided to coin a new food term: Mellow Jello. From here on out, these cute little alcohol-free jello bites will be known as Mellow Jello. They are perfect as an appetizer or on a dessert table. They are more mellow than their jello shot counterpart- eat as many as you like- and the possibilities for cute creations are endless. Plus I have a good reason to try something new and I am pretty happy about how they turned out. A group of friends that live in my neighborhood get together once a month for our version of Iron Chef. Every month we have a theme ingredient and we all make something using that ingredient. We then get together to taste what everybody made and vote for winners. We have 4 fabulous trophies, a gold, sliver, bronze and a trophy for best presentation. The winners each month get to take the trophy home and display it for that month. It’s a silly thing to do but those of us that attend have a great time. Plus it’s been a great way to get to know some of the women in the neighborhood.
Now go have some jello joy!
Tonight’s ingredient is grapefruit, so I adapted a recipe for a Paloma jelly shot. Here is what I did…
Mellow Jello Grapefruit Bite
1 1/3 C. grapefruit soda
1 T. lime juice
2 envelopes Knox gelatin
2/3 C. grapefruit juice
1 T. sugar
Pour soda and lime juice into a small saucepan and sprinkle with the gelatin. Allow the gelatin to soak for a minute or two. Heat over medium heat and add sugar until gelatin is dissolved, stirring constantly, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in the grapefruit juice. Pour into a loaf pan or mold. Put in the refrigerator to set for a few hours or over night.
Here is a yummy twist for homemade marshmallows. A few posts ago I dipped them in chocolate, this time I dipped them in crushed marshmallows. They are so good in hot cocoa!
Homemade Marshmallows
3 envelopes unflavored gelatin
1/2 C. Cold water
2 C. sugar
2/3 C. light corn syrup
1/4 C. water
1/4 t. salt
1 T. vanilla extract
Candy canes (optional)
powdered sugar for dredging
Line 9×13-inch pan with plastic wrap and lightly spray with non-stick cooking spray.
In a bowl of an electric mixer, sprinkle gelatin over 1/2 C. cold water to soften, about 10 min.
Meanwhile, combine sugar, corn syrup and 1/4 C. water in a small saucepan. Bring mixture to a rapid boil and boil hard 1 min. Pour boiling syrup into soaked gelatin and turn on mixer, using the wire attachment. Mix on high speed. Add salt and beat 12 min. After 12 min, add vanilla or mint extract. and beat to incorporate.
Spray a rubber spatula with cooking spray, be careful the mixture might be quite hot. Scrape the mixture into prepared pan. Cover the pan with a piece of plastic wrap that has been sprayed with cooking spray and softly press onto the top of the marshmallow mixture, creating a seal. Let the mixture cool and set for several hours or overnight.
Lightly dust counter with powdered sugar and dump the marshmallows out. Cut into pieces and dredge in powdered sugar. I have found that scissors work the best for cutting the marshmallows. Store in an airtight container.
If you want to coat the marshmallows with candy canes. Crush candy canes into small bits. Mix 1/2 C. powdered sugar with enough water to make a glaze. Dip marshmallows in the glaze and then in the candy and set on wax paper to dry.
Now go have some marshmallow joy!
Eunice here and I am here to declare that I am becoming a marshmallow snob. After all, I am known for my scrumptious Jello flavored marshmallows. Even so, the first time I attempted these vanilla marshmallows I thought it would also be the last. They were a hot goopy mess; but they were so yummy I haven’t been able to get them off my mind. So I have decided that they are worth it. They taste so much better store bought marshmallows. One day I was thinking how I could make the marshmallows even better and I thought, chocolate makes almost anything better. (I have eaten chocolate covered bacon and bacon fudge) So I dipped some marshmallows in chocolate and I was right!
Line 9×13-inch pan with wax paper and lightly spray with non-stick cooking spray.
Meanwhile, combine sugar, corn syrup and 1/4 C. water in a small saucepan. Bring mixture to a rapid boil and boil hard 1 min or if you have a thermometer boil until it gets to 250 degrees. Pour boiling syrup into soaked gelatin and turn on mixer, using the wire attachment. Mix on high speed. Add salt and beat 12 min. After 12 min, add vanilla, and beat to incorporate.
*I found that if I boil it until it gets to 250 degrees the mixture is more stable and less sticky when it comes to cutting them.
Spray a rubber spatula with cooking spray, be careful the mixture might be quite hot. Scrape the mixture into prepared pan. Cover the pan with a piece of plastic wrap that has been sprayed with cooking spray and softly press onto the top of the marshmallow mixture, creating a seal. Let the mixture cool on the counter to set for a few hours or over night.
*The sprayed plastic is the easiest way that I have found to spread the mixture evenly into the pan
At this point if you want to dip them in chocolate. I have found that the easiest way to do this for me is to melt chocolate in a glass bowl in the microwave. Then I don’t have to worry about moisture getting in the chocolate from a double boiler.
Now Go Do the Right Thing and Have Some Joy with Gelatin!
We picked both winners on random.org, I still can’t figure out how to post the random number generator thing. You are just going to have to trust me.
Drum roll please…..
The winner on facebook is Robin Davis
The recipe superstar winner is J.P Baxter
Congratulations Robin and J.P.!
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