Jello Recipes
Streusel Topping Raspberry Pie with a Peach Jello Sauce
This delicious raspberry pie recipe blends berries and tapioca for a juicy filling with nuts, oats and more for a delicious streusel style topping. The piecrust is homemade and the raspberry pie is served with homemade peach sauce, made with peach jello. You cannot use jello in the raspberry pie because it needs to be baked but you can use it to make the tasty peach sauce.
"Streusel" is German for sprinkled or scattered and this word applies to any fruit or raspberry pie with this type of topping. You can also call it a crumble recipe. Flour, butter, and white sugar are traditional ingredients if you want to know how to make streusel but some streusel topping recipes have nuts in or other ingredients.
The peach jello sauce is made with peach jello, peach puree, sugar, and water. It goes well with raspberry pie recipes because it is sweet and fruity. You could use a different flavor of jello if you wanted, and a different fruit.
Traditional Raspberry Pie Recipe
Ingredients -
For the Crust:
2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
⅓ cup chilled vegetable shortening, in ½ inch cubes
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
5 tablespoons ice water
7 tablespoons butter, in ½ inch cubes
For the Filling:
1 cup white sugar
2 cups fresh strawberries
2 cup fresh raspberries
1 cup fresh blackberries
¼ cup fast-cooking tapioca
2 tablespoons lemon juice
For the Topping:
6 tablespoons whole almonds
6 tablespoons butter, in ½ inch cubes
6 tablespoons brown sugar
4 ½ tablespoons all purpose flour
4 ½ tablespoons oats
For the Jello Sauce:
1 package peach jello
1 cup water
2 peaches, pureed
½ cup sugar
To Serve:
8 fresh strawberries, halved
Raspberry ice cream syrup
Preparation:
Combine the flour, salt, and white sugar in a food processor, then add the butter and the shortening, pulsing the mixture a few times.
Add the ice water until you get moist clumps.
Add more ice water if you need to.
Press the dough into a ball, then flatten it into a disk shape, wrap in it plastic and refrigerate it for an hour.
Combine the topping ingredients in the food processor and process until you get moist clumps.
Cover it and chill.
For the fruit filling, mix the tapioca, lemon juice, and sugar, then add the berries, tossing the mixture to combine the ingredients.
Let it stand for 45 minutes or until the tapioca goes soft, stirring the mixture a few times.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Let the crust stand at room temperature for 10 minutes, then roll it out to a 15 inch circle. Put it in a 9 inch pie dish and trim the overhang, folding it underneath and crimping it.
Freeze the piecrust for 20 minutes, then spoon the filling into it.
Crumble the topping over the filling and bake the pie until the filling is bubbling and the topping is golden brown.
If the top browns too fast, you can cover it with a sheet of aluminum foil.
The pie should cook for about an hour.
Let it cool on a wire rack for 3 hours.
To make the peach jello sauce, bring the pureed peaches and water to a boil over a medium heat, then add the jello and stir for 30 seconds.
Remove the mixture from the heat and stir in the sugar.
Cover and chill until thick. Serve each wedge of raspberry pie with a halved strawberry, some raspberry sauce, and some peach sauce.
(Serves 8)
Photo Description:
This deliciously fruity raspberry pie recipe is made in stages. First, you make the piecrust, then the filling, then the crumb topping. The raspberry pie is served with a homemade peach jello sauce and raspberry sauce. This is an impressive looking raspberry pie and one of the most delicious raspberry pie recipes there is. Serve this after any type of dinner or at a party. Fruit pies are always popular and this one is an extra special raspberry pie recipe.
Famous German Dessert Recipes
A streusel topping recipe is very German and you might find a streusel topping on a raspberry pie or another of our jello recipes or jello pudding recipes. As well as streusel, which is a combination of butter, sugar and flour, there are many other traditional and famous German dessert recipes that you might be interested in knowing about.
German desserts are usually a balance between wholesome flavors and high quality ingredients. There are classic German dessert and cake recipes, which have passed down the generations relatively unchanged. Germany borders on nine other countries and each of these countries has helped to influence German dessert making.
Types of German Desserts
German desserts are often light, as opposed to rich and heavy, because German meals themselves tend to be rich and plentiful. Fresh fruit, custard, or cream pudding might be served after a meal. It is traditional to serve cake, tortes, cookies, or pie with coffee at coffee time though. Germans love cakes, pies, cookies, and old-fashioned dessert recipes. There are Christmas dessert recipes, which are used to make desserts for any special occasions, not just Christmas.
Even though German desserts vary throughout the regions of the country, tarts and cakes are popular everywhere. A fresh fruit and streusel topping recipe would be a good example of a typical German sweet treat. Cherries, plums, strawberries, and apples often feature in German recipes, especially in cake recipes. Cheesecake, which is often made with quark instead of cream cheese, is well loved there, and is as likely to be served as a raspberry pie recipe with streusel topping.
German donuts do not have holes in them and these balls of yeast are often filled with jelly or jam. There are thin pancakes, not dissimilar to French crepes, and served with sugar, jelly, or syrup. They are served whole and wrapped up or cut into smaller pieces. There are also savory versions of these crepes with bacon, ground meat or cheese but these are not desserts of course.
Northern German Desserts
In northern Germany, you might find "rote grutze" which is a fruit pudding made with redcurrants, blackcurrants, raspberries and maybe also cherries or strawberries. This is not a dessert with a streusel topping or one of the more modern jello recipes but a delicious, red-colored dessert. Cornstarch is used to thicken the mixture and it can be served with vanilla sauce, whipped cream, or milk. Gooseberry fruit pudding and rhubarb pudding are other variants of "rote grutze" and you can make your own version of bread pudding or fruit pudding using jello pudding as a base.
Another northern Germany favorite is strawberries and these are served with black pepper and vanilla ice cream. This dessert dates back to the 1600s. Sorbets and ice cream are well loved throughout Germany and Italian ice cream parlors started becoming popular there in the 1920s.
Making German Style Desserts with Jello
If you like desserts like raspberry pie with streusel topping you will find that jello can be used to make the most delicious German inspired dessert recipes. Germans love to eat cake with their coffee in the late morning, so you can try jello poke cake recipe or another type of jello cake. Jello can be used to flavor cakes or add a nice textured topping to pretty much any of your favorite cake recipes.
German desserts are not difficult to make and by using jello gelatin or jello pudding you can make something really spectacular, perhaps with a German inspired streusel topping.
