Jello Recipes
Strawberry and Vanilla Jello Flag Cake
If you want to impress everybody on July 4, there are not many jello recipes to rival the impact this one makes! July 4 only comes once a year so it is worth making the effort to do something special in honor of the event.
This jello flag cake is made up with a cake mix and strawberry jello is added to the cake to make it moist and tasty. The topping is a combination of frosting and marzipan in red, white, and blue. This cake might look complicated to make but it is fairly straightforward. If you have never frosted a cake before, you might want to practice a bit before making this frosted jello flag cake.
It does not have to be perfect, of course, but you will want it to be recognizable as a jello flag cake. Frosting cakes is not that difficult and once you have done a few, you will find it pretty easy. A couple of lit sparklers finishes the cake off perfectly and will attract the admiring glances that it so rightly deserves! This cake tastes every bit as good as it looks.
Fabulous Frosted Jello Flag Cake
Ingredients -
For the Cake:
1 white cake mix
3 eggs (or as per cake mix directions)
1 cup water (or as per cake mix directions)
1/3 cup butter (or as per cake mix directions)
1 package strawberry or raspberry jello
1 package white marzipan
For the Frosting:
1 ½ cups butter
12 cups confectioners' sugar
2/3 cup plus 4 tablespoons milk
½ teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
10 drops red food coloring
10 drops blue food coloring
Preparation:
Make up the cake according to the directions on the package and let it cool completely. Poke holes all over the top of the cake through to the base with a chopstick.
Make up the jello as per the instructions on the pack and pour it slowly over the cooled cake. Chill the cake until the jello has completely set.
Put the cake pan in a dish of hot water for a minute and you will be able to tip it out on to a serving platter.
To make the frosting, beat the butter until fluffy and add ¼ of the confectioners' sugar. Beat in the salt, vanilla, and 2/3 cup of the milk.
Gradually beat in the rest of the confectioners' sugar and the rest of the milk if you need it.
Separate the frosting between three bowls.
Add the red food coloring to one, the blue food coloring to another, and leave the last one white.
Put the white and blue icing in two piping bags. Spread the red frosting all over the top of the cake.
Roll out the marzipan to make stripes and put these across the cake.
Wrap any leftover marzipan in plastic wrap and keep it in an airtight container.
Pipe the white frosting all around the outside of the cake and use the blue and white frosting to create the stars on the cake.
Chill in the refrigerator for an hour then decorate with sparklers.
(Serves 10)
Photo Description:
This cute looking, strawberry, and vanilla jello cake looks really professional. You can buy flag cakes but making your own is more fun. When July 4 rolls around, why not make the effort to create something as beautiful as this jello flag cake? Even if yours looks slightly different, everyone will definitely be impressed with it. There are lots of different recipes for patriotic desserts and patriotic cakes but this is one of the very best. Not only does it look amazing but it tastes wonderful as well.
Patriotic Jello Desserts
Other Jello Desserts Like Jello Flag Cake
July 4 is a great time to show off your baking skills and cake decorating skills, as well as a time to relax and enjoy yourself. If you made something impressive like a jello flag cake last year, decorated in red, white, and blue frosting or strawberries and blueberries, you might be wondering how you can surpass yourself this year. What other July 4 recipes are there?
You might like to make fruit kabobs. Alternate slices of strawberry with blueberries and white marshmallows and you can make red, white, and blue fruit kabobs. These are delicious dipped in chocolate.
Another good idea is to make a dessert pizza. You can use the red, white, and blue theme here too. Decorate the dessert pizza with marshmallow fluff, and then arrange red and blue berries over the top. This is especially well loved by kids. You can decorate sweet pizzas with any toppings you like. Use a cookie dough crust and give your kids some ingredients so they can decorate their own.
Patriotic Jello Cookies
You can use jello to make cookies. Simply add some gelatin jello powder to the cookie mixture and the cookies will take on the flavor and color of whichever jello you use. Cookies keep well too, so if they are not all eaten at your fourth of July gathering, you will have some left over for the fifth of July as well!
You can use any flavor of jello to make jello cookies but you might like to use strawberry jello and blueberry jello if you want patriotic colors. Add some vanilla extract or almond extract for a hint of flavor and decorate jello cookies with frosting, chocolate chips, tiny silver balls or anything else you fancy. The great thing about making cookies and cakes is that you can be really creative and have fun designing your patriotic desserts.
Fruity Jello Treats
Summer berry trifle or mixed berry pie are nice dessert ideas for July 4 and you can combine fresh berries with custard, jello chunks and whipped cream for a trifle or fresh berries, a pie crust and jello for a pie.
Jelly pie is so easy. Just arrange some fruit pieces in a readymade piecrust and pour some thickened jello over the top. Leave it to set and you have a delicious patriotic pie. You can use any fruit or berries you choose.
Canned, thawed, and fresh fruit is all fine but if you are using thawed fruit, make sure you drain it well because it can be quite watery and this will dilute the flavor of the jello. Since July 4 is in the middle of summer, there should be plenty of seasonal produce to choose from if you want to use fresh fruit in your jello recipes.
Do not forget about frozen fourth of July recipes either. You can make frozen jello popsicles using gelatin or jello pudding. Frozen fruit kabobs are refreshing and you can use ice cream to make frozen jello recipes. Some kinds of mousse are nice served frozen or chilled too. If the weather is hot, frozen desserts are really cooling.
