Jello Recipes
No Bake Strawberry Pie Jello Recipe
This tasty strawberry pie jello recipe is fun to make and there is no baking involved. The pie crust is a tasty graham cracker mixture. Next is a layer of strawberry jello, then a creamy layer and finally a fruit topping. This jello strawberry pie makes a great dessert and you can vary some of the ingredients in this fluffy jello dessert if you want to. Perhaps you fancy using another flavor of jello to make the jello layer. You can use any fruits you like for the topping and any kind of jelly on the fruit.
This is a very simple jello dessert recipe and it is suitable to be served at any occasion. To cut down some of the calories, you might want to use sugar free jello. You can also switch half the whipped cream for yogurt if you want.
There are lots of jello recipes you can make with jello. A lot of them have a jello topping but this strawberry pie jello recipe is a bit different because the jello layer goes underneath, between the creamy topping and the crust. When you cut into this jello strawberry pie, you can see all the delicious layers in it.
Creamy Jello Strawberry Pie with Kiwis
Ingredients -
1 ¼ cups graham cracker crumbs
8 oz softened cream cheese
½ stick butter, melted
¼ cup milk
¼ cup powdered sugar
1 cup whipped cream
3 kiwis, peeled and sliced lengthwise
½ cup strawberries, halved
¼ cup strawberry jelly, heated
Grated peel and juice from 1 lemon
1 package strawberry jello
1 cup boiling water
Preparation:
Combine the melted butter and graham cracker crumbs and press this mixture firmly over the bottom of a pie plate and partway up the sides.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Dissolve the strawberry jello in the boiling water and leave this mixture to thicken.
When the crust is set and the jello mixture is very thick, spoon it into the crust and refrigerate again for an hour, until the jello layer is set.
Beat the powdered sugar and cream cheese, then add the lemon peel and juice and the milk, mixing well.
Finely chop 1 of the kiwis and add it to the cream cheese mixture. Fold in the whipped cream too.
Pour this mixture into the crust, over the set strawberry jello layer.
Top the jello strawberry pie with the sliced kiwis and halved strawberries.
Brush the heated strawberry jelly over the top, to make the fruit look glossy, then chill the pie for 30 minutes before serving it.
(Serves 8)
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This tasty jello strawberry pie is so easy to make and the result is a creamy, tasty fluffy jello dessert, which the whole family is sure to love. If you like to use fresh fruit when making dessert recipes, and especially jello recipes, this strawberry pie jello recipe is a great one to make. You can use any fruit you like or even thaw some frozen fruit. If you are going to use frozen fruit to make this fluffy jello dessert, make sure it is well thawed and drained. Thawed fruit can be really watery. This jello dessert recipe is colorful and if you are looking for an exciting Christmas dessert recipe, the green and red color of this one make it really festive.
The History of Pie and Jello Strawberry Pie
Fruit pie has been enjoyed as a breakfast food since the 1800s and these were made with berries, apples and other fruits. Apple pies were first mentioned in a book in 1590 so they have been around for an especially long time. In fact, the history of pies can be traced right back to ancient Egyptian times. The early Greeks are believed to have given the idea to the early Romans.
Rather than using a pastry crust, like you would find with a no bake strawberry pie jello recipe for example, ancient Greek and Roman pies were wrapped in reeds. The reeds were to keep the filling in place, not for eating. The word "pie" was in common usage since the 1300s and the first ever pie recipe was for a honey and goat cheese pie in a rye crust.
Different Types of Pie Recipes
Perhaps you enjoy making and eating a strawberry pie jello recipe or maybe you prefer savory pies. Early pies were meat pies and these were being made and served in England as far back as the 1100s. The crust was known as the "coffin" and there was very little filling compared to the amount of crust. Fowl such as chicken or smaller birds was a popular pie filling and the legs were often left sticking out of the pie side, to be used as a handle! The first fruit tarts and fruit pie recipes date back to the 1500s and the first cherry pie was given as a gift to Queen Elizabeth I.
The first English immigrants brought pie to the United States. The early settlers cooked their pies in narrow pans. Piecrusts were not made to be eaten but simply to hold the filling while the pie baked. The word "coffin" did not become "crust" until the American Revolution. Pie today is one of the most traditional American dessert recipes.
There are all kinds of pie recipes but the American Pie Council and Crisco did a survey in 2004 and discovered that one in four Americans likes apple pie better than any other kind, followed by sweet potato or pumpkin, chocolate, lemon meringue and then cherry pie. Three out of four Americans prefer homemade pie, which is a great reason to make your no bake strawberry pie jello recipe, and only one in a hundred Americans prefers pie from a diner. Two in three Americans prefer their pie plain, instead of served with whipped cream or ice cream.
A recent favorite is a strawberry pie jello recipe. Jello makes pie making easy and you can be creative with the fruit fillings and the type of jello you use.
