Jello Recipes
Raspberry Topped Chocolate Strawberry Cake
This strawberry chocolate cake is a wonderful combination of moist chocolate cake, cherry and strawberry flavored mousse, and strawberry jello. The chocolate strawberry cake is decorated with strawberry slices, raspberries, and baby breath flowers, making this an ideal dessert for mothers' day or valentine’s day. You can make this chocolate cake recipe any time you want to, for a loved one, for your children or for anyone who needs cheering up. This is the kind of cake that puts a smile on anyone's face.
For the chocolate cake recipe, it is easier to use a chocolate cake mix because the mousse and jello layers are made by hand. Kirsch, which is a delicious German cherry liqueur, is used in both the mousse and jello layers for a rich flavor. If you like strawberry whip cream jello dessert recipes, you must give this wonderful cake a try.
Make it up like one big cake and then use a cookie cutter to cut little round or square mini cakes. This is such a cute dessert and this raspberry topped chocolate strawberry cake is guaranteed to impress anybody you serve it too, both because it looks so amazing and because it tastes so delicious.
Gourmet Strawberry Chocolate Cake with Kirsch
Ingredients -
For the Cake:
Chocolate cake mix
1 pint fresh raspberries, for garnish
Small bunch baby breath flowers, for garnish
½ cup sliced strawberries, for garnish
For the Mousse:
8 tablespoons powdered sugar
1 tablespoon kirsch
12 oz strawberry puree
1 teaspoon lemon juice
½ oz gelatin dissolved in 3 tablespoons hot water
1 ½ cups whipped cream
For the Jello Topping:
1 tablespoon water
1 tablespoon kirsch
1 teaspoon lemon juice
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup water
1 ½ pints strawberries
3 drops red food coloring
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
Preparation:
Make up the chocolate cake mix according to the instructions and bake in a 13 x 9 inch cake pan. Allow to cook.
To make the mousse:
Boil the strawberry puree with half the powdered sugar and let it cool. Stir the warm gelatin mixture into the strawberry puree and add the kirsch and lemon juice.
Whip the cream with the rest of the powdered sugar until it is mousse-like (you might not need all the powdered sugar).
Stir the strawberry puree into the whipped cream until well combined. Spread the mousse on top of the cooled chocolate cake base.
To make the topping:
Crush the strawberries in a pan until the juices flow. Cook over a low heat, add the water and sugar, and let the mixture simmer for 10 minutes.
Drain the pulp and juice through a sieve or cheesecloth-lined colander into a bowl. Put the kirsch, lemon juice, and water in a bowl and sprinkle the gelatin over it.
Stir briefly.
Add the red food coloring. Put the bowl over a bowl of ice water and stir it now and then. When the mixture is starting to thicken and is like syrup, remove it from the ice water.
Spread it over the mousse and refrigerate until cool.
Freeze the mousse-topped cake for 30 minutes. When the jello has set, use a round cutter (or a clean, empty can) to cut circular portions.
Decorate each one with a few raspberries and baby breath flowers and serve on top of some strawberry slices.
(Serves 10)
Photo Description:
If you are looking for a strawberry chocolate cake recipe to impress someone, you have found it. These wonderful mini chocolate cakes are topped with mousse, jello, and fresh berries. They would not look out of place at a garden party or wedding. If you can make cake, mousse, and jello, garnishing these delicious little treats is the easy part. Making recipes like this chocolate strawberry cake has never been so easy and it is jello that gives this cake a lot of flavor and holds it together so well.
How to Make Jello Water
Jello water is a home remedy and many people were given jello water when they were a child. If you have an upset stomach or a sore throat, you might want to try this home remedy for yourself and see if it makes you feel better.
To make jello water, you need to stir a three-ounce package of jello powder into three or four cups of boiling water. When you make jello, it is normal to add two cups of water (one for finger jello). Let the mixture cool down a little and drink it as hot as you can. The sugar relieves the hypoglycemic nausea you can get from not eating for a while and it gives you energy. The gelatin is soothing for your stomach and it coats your throat and stomach.
You can use any flavor of jello to make jello water. It might be best to avoid red jello if you have an upset stomach since you will not be able to see blood in it (and it is quite distressing to throw up a lot of red liquid for that reason!) If you feel quite nauseous but you still want to drink, make the jello water weaker.
If you are queasy or you have a sore throat, try some jello water. It really is comforting and makes you feel better. When you are better you might prefer to make a raspberry topped chocolate strawberry cake with the jello instead but that will have to wait until you feel brighter again!
Jello Water for Babies
Some parents like to make jello water for their babies and others disagree with this practice. If you are making jello water for a baby, make it very weak and serve it lukewarm. Jello is a combination of sugar, colorants, and gelatin so it does not contain anything a baby needs.
However if you want to encourage your baby or young child to drink, jello adds an appealing flavor to plain water. It is a palatable and cheap method of encouraging your child to get some liquid into them. If you do not want to use jello water, what about combining a little fruit juice or fruit cordial with water instead?
If your child has diarrhea, he or she can become dehydrated fairly quickly, so jello water is a nice way of making a colorful drink that your child will be willing to take some sips of. Some parents dislike the fact that jello is high in sugar and contains artificial colorants and they prefer not to give it to their babies.
Another way of making jello water is to stir half a teaspoon of jello into two ounces of warm water then add a pinch of baking soda. The baking soda helps with gas and stomach acids and might be useful if your baby is suffering from colic.
When You Feel Better
Once you feel better, you can use your jello powder for other things! Maybe a chocolate strawberry cake, jello mousse, jello poke cake or one of our other jello recipes can tempt you.
