Jello Recipes
Layered Raspberry Pie with a Chocolate Crust
This delicious raspberry pie combines the flavors of raspberries, vanilla and chocolate for a delicious jello pie recipe. The chocolate crust is a simple combination of chocolate graham cracker crumbs and melted butter. For a cup and a half of graham cracker crumbs, you will need to process about eleven graham crackers in a food processor with a metal blade or put the crackers in a plastic bag and crush them using a rolling pin.
The next layer in this tasty raspberry pie recipe is a creamy raspberry sorbet and Cool Whip combination. On top of that is a layer of vanilla jello pudding, fresh raspberries and more Cool Whip. You can use thawed or frozen raspberries if you prefer, or even canned raspberries, as long as you drain them well. The raspberries give this jello pie a delicious and appetizing pink color. You could always use strawberries or blackberries if you prefer, and if you do this, you might like to use strawberry or blackberry sorbet, or strawberry ice cream, instead of the raspberry sorbet. Ice cream will make a creamier pie.
Because this raspberry cream pie contains sorbet, you will need to freeze it well to set it, and then keep it in the freezer. This fresh raspberry pie is a wonderfully light and refreshing dessert, like most raspberry pie recipes are, and the combination of vanilla and raspberries is a heavenly one. This is one of the most delicious jello recipes ever.
The Best Raspberry Pie Recipe
Ingredients -
1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs
5 tablespoons melted butter
2 cups frozen raspberry sorbet, softened
1 cup raspberries
1 ¼ cups cold milk
2 packages (4 serving size) jello vanilla instant pudding
2 cups thawed Cool Whip
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix together the graham cracker crumbs and the melted butter.
You can either mix it by hand in a bowl or pulse it a few times in a food processor.
Press the crumbs over the sides and bottom of a 9 inch pie pan, and then bake the crust for about 10 minutes.
Combine the sorbet and half the Cool Whip, whisking it with a wire whisk until well combined.
Spoon this mixture into the cooled pie crust, then cover it and freeze for an hour.
Combine the vanilla pudding with the milk and beat for a couple of minutes with a wire whisk, until it is very thick.
Stir in the rest of the Cool Whip and the raspberries and spoon this mixture over the partially set sorbet layer.
Freeze overnight or for at least four hours.
Take the pie out of the freezer 15 minutes before serving it and let it stand at room temperature until you can cut it easily.
Keep any leftover pie in the freezer.
(Serves 8)
Photo Description:
Raspberry pie recipes vary but this one uses vanilla pudding and sorbet, for a light and airy texture. This is an easy raspberry pie recipe to make and raspberries are many people's favorite berry. Just looking at this photo of fresh raspberries is enough to make your mouth water. The chocolate pie crust in this raspberry pie recipe adds a rich flavor but you can use regular graham crackers instead of chocolate ones if you prefer. Raspberries are a wonderful ingredient to use in jello recipes because their natural sweetness contributes to the flavor of any dessert recipe.
How to Make a Frozen Pie
A lot of pies are meant to be kept chilled in the refrigerator until you serve them. If you are using cream cheese, fresh cream or other ingredients in the pie recipe, these will stay fresher if you refrigerate the pie. Also, chilled pie tastes better. However, sometimes a recipe for layered raspberry pie with a chocolate crust or a similar recipe will tell you to freeze the pie instead.
Using Ice Cream in Pie Recipes
Pie can be made with chilled ingredients like cream, butter, cream cheese or fruit or it can be made with frozen ingredients like ice cream or sorbet. You can partially thaw ice cream or sorbet-based desserts a little so they are softer but obviously they will melt if you allow them to reach room temperature.
Some recipes, like a frozen layered raspberry pie recipe, might tell you to partially thaw the ice cream or sorbet so that you can mix it with other ingredients. It is very hard to stir something, which is frozen! A recipe might tell you to use "softened" ice cream, which means leave it at room temperature until you can stir it, not until it is like water. It should still be cold when you use it.
Frozen Pies Varieties
A lot of frozen pie recipes, like an ice cream and raspberry pie recipe, can be served from the freezer or left to warm up slightly for ten minutes or until you can get a knife through it to cut a slice. There are lots of other types of frozen pies and they might contain chocolate, coffee, fruit, or sorbet.
Ice cream is a really good ingredient for a frozen pie recipe and you can use jello pudding or jello gelatin to firm up the consistency of the pie and add a fruity flavor. You can make really easy frozen pies by using a readymade piecrust and scooping spoonfuls of softened ice cream into it, as well as chocolate, marshmallows and any other ingredients you want to use.
Tips for Frozen Pies
If you want to take a frozen pie to an event or party, you can line a paper bag with newspapers and put the pie inside. If you do this, the pie will stay frozen for up to an hour. If you are serving your frozen layered raspberry pie with whipped cream, do not add the cream until you are ready to serve it, else the pie will melt.
A frozen pie should be left at room temperature for ten to fifteen minutes before serving, depending on the pie ingredients and the air temperature, else it will be too hard to cut or eat. Keep leftover frozen pie in the freezer.
