Great Jello Recipes

As an independent businesswoman, internet entrepreneur, the mother of four young gentlemen, and someone who faces the effects of multiple scleroses, you can see how my days are full and I have my limitations. One of the effects I face from the MS is a limited amount of time on my feet. So you can only imagine that easy and quick desserts are a must in my house.

It is because of this that I started using Jell-O © in my dessert making. It took me off my feet quickly but still let me give my guys a fun and tasty dessert at dinnertime. I'm sure your life isn't much different in some ways. With all the demands the modern world places on mothers today, what is one to do about putting a healthy dinner on the table, let alone having time for dessert? Well, that is why Jello Recipes was started. I wanted to share recipes we had come up with, plus information on making easy desserts.

I was simply blown away with the responses I started getting from people and so, in October of 2009, we started working with our chef, writers, and the rest of the staff, to bring an even better Jello Recipes website to the net. Over the next month or so, we will reveal a new design and a much-upgraded site. We have huge plans for making Jello Recipes a household name in the recipe circles. Come join us on our journey and, if you like what we do, share it with someone. We love making more friends, and with your help we can put a jello dessert on every dinner table.

Choosing Which Jello Recipe to Make

If you are new to making jello recipes, you might like to make something quite basic and easy for your first jello recipe, like plain jello or jello with fruit pieces, just so you know how easy jello is to work with. After that, you might like to try making a jello salad recipe or some jello cookies.

Examples of Classic Jello Recipes

You might remember jello from your schooldays or from your childhood. Maybe your mother or your grandmother would make a colorful, wobbly dessert for you, with fruit pieces. Classic jello recipes include jello molds in a variety of shapes. The concept of using a mold to make a dessert might sound a bit antiquated now, but kids love fun desserts like jello molds and you can make the most amazing looking jello desserts with ease if you use one.

Jello can be paired with ice cream, cream, custard or any kind of whipped topping. Add some chocolate chips, marshmallows, ice cream syrup and whatever else you like, to create a wonderful jello concoction.

Making Jello Recipes

Unless you are using jello crystals as a flavoring only, jello dessert recipes need time to set, which means you need to plan what you are going to make a couple of hours ahead. This can actually work in your favor. If you are cooking dinner and busy with that, it is nice to know that your jello desserts are safety chilling in the refrigerator while you work on other things.

There are literally hundreds of jello recipes and, if you work on the premise that you can substitute any fruity jello flavor for another that makes thousands of delicious jello recipes at your fingertips. Also, don't forget there are jello puddings, instant jello desserts, and clear gelatin sheets that you can work with too. There is even agar agar, which is a vegan and vegetarian jello.

If jello is something that you have not eaten since you were young, why not try some new and modern jello recipes? Very soon, jello will be a staple in your kitchen once more, as you delight in the wonderful jello dishes you can make for your family.

Easy Jello Recipes for Everyone

There is nothing difficult about working with jello. As long as you follow the recipes, as well as the guidelines on the package of jello, your jello desserts should come out just fine. Jello is unique in that it appeals to all ages, is delicious and healthy too, and you can make an incredible number of different desserts using it. We have fun making and eating the best jello recipes and we are sure you will too.

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Ingredients -

8 yellow delicious apples
1 bag fresh cranberries
2 cups sugar
1 can drained, crushed pineapple
2 boxes strawberry jello
1 box cranberry jello
2 ½ cups hot water

Preparation:

Grind the cranberries with the apples and set aside. You can use a food processor to chop the fruit fairly fine but maintain it in a chunky state we are not looking for mush here.

Dissolve the sugar and jello in water in a pan over a medium heat. Remove from the heat and add the fruit. Transfer to a serving bowl and chill for five hours or overnight, then serve chilled, either with cream or as an accompaniment to a turkey dinner.

I nice addition is to use sour cream and or add chopped walnuts to this Jello salad recipe.

(Serves 10)

As with jello recipes like strawberry whip cream jello dessert, this lemon jello meringue pie recipe is an impressive one to serve. Of course you can buy lemon meringue pie from the store but nothing beats homemade lemon meringue pie recipes. In the following recipes, lemon jello is used to give a great texture to the lemon part of the pie and to add flavor as well.

For easy lemon meringue pie jello is a great ingredient because it adds to the color, flavor, and consistency without taking anything away. Lemon jello is delicious by itself but even nicer if you use it to make an easy recipe for lemon meringue pie. Once you have discovered how easy it is to make lemon meringue pie, you will never buy another readymade one again.

The jello in this recipe also helps the lemon meringue pie to hold its shape. You can garnish the finished lemon meringue pie slices with orange slices or mint leaves or simple serve it as it is. Watch it very carefully while it bakes. That is incredibly important. Just the tips of the meringue should be golden brown and meringue can change from golden brown to dark burnt brown in a matter of seconds, so beware!

Easy Lemon Meringue Pie with Jello
Ingredients -

8 or 9 inch pie crust, cooked

For the Filling:

1 small pack lemon jello
1 tablespoon sugar
2 ice cubes
¾ cup boiling water
½ cup ice cold lemonade concentrate
1 2/3 cups lemon yogurt

For the Meringue:

4 egg whites
2 tablespoons sugar
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar

Preparation:

Combine the sugar and yogurt and set aside.

Stir boiling water into the jello until it dissolves, then add the ice, stir in the lemonade concentrate and whisk in the yogurt using a wire whisk. Pour this liquid into the cooled pie crust and refrigerate for 3 hours.

For the meringue, put the egg whites and cream of tartar in a stand mixer bowl and beat with the whisk attachment until the egg whites are like soft peaks.

Gradually add the sugar and keep beating until you have stiff peaks.

This takes 1 or 2 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.

Spray an oven safe dish with non stick cooking spray and spread the meringue into it, sculpting it as you like.

Bake for about 10 minutes until just the tops are brown, then slide the cooled meringue topping on to the lemon pie.

(Serves 6)