Jello Recipes
Fruity Fluffy Jello Dessert
This unusual fluffy jello dessert recipe makes a beautiful looking dessert. The concept is simple, since you are just going to layer a few different flavors of jello and serve a strawberry on top, but these desserts are very eye catching and people enjoying your fluffy jello dessert recipe will not realize how easy there were to create! This is a fruity, creamy, and wonderfully flavored fluffy dessert.
This fluffy jello dessert is very clever and if you like fruity flavors you will find that it is the ideal finish to any meal. Since the strawberries are frozen in ice, serve this dessert as soon as you have garnished it, so the ice does not begin to melt before you have served these.
You can vary the jello flavors. The ones suggested in the recipe are just for interesting colors and flavors but any flavor of jello goes nicely with any other flavor so use what you have for this stripy jello dessert. These look like jello shots but they are nonalcoholic and the long ice spike makes swallowing them a rather bad idea! Serve them with teaspoons instead.
Striped Fluffy Jello Dessert with a Frozen Strawberry
Ingredients -
Small pack peach jello
Small pack pineapple jello
Small pack lemon jello
Small pack strawberry jello
4 tablespoons heavy cream
20 fresh strawberries, hulled
Fresh mint leaves, to garnish
Preparation:
Make up the lemon jello, as directed in the recipe on the back of the pack, but adding ¼ of the cream in place of 1 tablespoon of the cold water, and share it between 20 very small, long, thin glasses.
Chill until set.
Repeat with the strawberry, pineapple and finally the peach jello, waiting until each layer sets before adding the next and adding some cream to each one to make it fluffy, until you have 4 colored jello stripes in each glass.
While the final layer is setting, make the frozen strawberries.
For this you need to freeze them in water, preferable in a glass with an open stem or in an interesting shaped mold so you get an interesting ice shape or spear shape.
Alternative you can use aluminum foil or plastic wrap to make your own ice mold for the frozen strawberry.
Decorate each dessert with a sprig of mint and serve immediately so the ice around the strawberry doesn't melt too soon.
(Makes 20)
Photo Description:
Sometimes it is fun to make exciting looking desserts and this striped fluffy jello dessert is one of the most intriguing jello desserts we have. The ice-wrapped strawberry is not only a unique garnish idea but it elevates this dessert from a plain stripy jello dessert to something very unusual and elegant. The fruity flavors in this fluffy dessert all go together well and the mint leaves and strawberry are the ideal topping. Jello is a fun and playful food. You can be really inventive with it too, as this recipe demonstrates.
How to Decorate a Jello Dessert
Whether you are making a fluffy jello dessert or a smooth jello dessert, you have plenty of choice when it comes to garnish and decoration. You might like to use cream, fruit, nuts, leaves, sugar balls, wafers, or something else as a garnish. If you are making a jello dessert for a special occasion, perhaps some fresh flowers (make sure they are non-toxic!) would look pretty.
Edible and Non-Edible Garnishes
Non-edible garnishes should be obviously non-edible. Plastic flowers, ribbons, little plastic spoons, or flags made from toothpicks, paper can be used as a garnish, and nobody would confuse these with food. If you are going to use flowers or petals, make sure they are not only edible but also organic. Rose petals are edible (and in fact taste very nice) but do not get roses from a florist or nursery because they might be sprayed with pesticides. You will damage your reputation as a great hostess if half your guests end up being poisoned!
Also, do not assume your guests will differentiate between non-edible flowers and toppings that resemble foods and those, which are edible. You might plan to warn people not to eat the decoration but what if you forget? Also, you should not garnish your jello mold dessert with anything unsafe to eat anyway, just in case.
Simple Ideas for Garnishes
You can see in the photo on the left how ice is used as a garnish. This sounds very simple but look how elegant the ice-coated strawberry is. Ice melts so if you are using ice shapes as a garnish you will have to serve the desserts immediately. Also, do not use ice to garnish a dessert if the melted ice is going to ruin it. Ice is not a good decoration for a cake because it will make it soggy. It is however great for garnishing jello because jello is waterproof.
When in doubt, use a very simple garnish. A plain-looking dish of fluffy jello or a one-color jello mold can be decorated very nicely with a dollop of whipped cream and a single cherry or half a strawberry. Do not go overboard with garnishes. The most simple garnishes almost always work the best.
