{From Chatelaine Magazine 1959}
With all the heavy sugar laden desserts and cookies we have had around the house I decided to put together something more on the light side, a Jell-O dessert called Jingle Jells! I used sugar free Jell-O and sugar free cool whip. I made the mistake of not following the directions (which sound like Jell-O Jigglers) and didn't make my jello firm enough to hold the bell shapes easily. I wound up having to put my bells in the freezer to firm them up. While I was in the freezer a more efficient person would have remembered to take the cool whip out to defrost but no. My whipped topping is not beautiful and fluffy because I had to ...microwave it... for a few seconds to defrost it, so it turned out a touch runny.
It's a simple concoction but the holiday hectic hell has gotten me to the point I can't even make Jell-O right.
It tasted just fine though, damn it.
A tip that the Jell-O folks didn't let on about is how to keep the red side red and the green side green.
To keep them separated I had PB hold a plate vertically in the middle of the bowl while I scooped equal amounts of
jell-o on each side. Once full just slip the plate out!
{click on image to enlarge for recipe}
3 comments:
I was wondering how you would get the Jello so nicely separated in the bowl. Very clever! It looks lovely, even though I don't eat Jello :)
Thanks Jennilee! Why no Jello? Is it the texture?
~mary~
Yes! I just can't stand it! *shudder* I don't like gummie candies either.
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