Many, many moons ago my Mom used to make this jello thing with creme cheese. All I remember was that it started with a red flavor and while it was still hot ( I think) she'd use mixer to mix in X amount of creme cheese. It was then put into a specific copper mold (anything green went into a different mold, same with yellow, etc). When it set it was at least two layers if not more and the creamy part was fabu. Anybody got an ideas on how to make it?
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Mom used To make this, but with lime jello. Mom's family wasn't much on making desserts or bakiing, but they all had their own no bake dessert specialties involving ingredients like jello and cool whip, and they actually were all pretty good, and some of them looked really nice too.
Moms Recipe:
Make 2 boxes jello, acoording to directions. While still hot, beat a softened 8oz. pkg cream cheese till smooth, then slowly beat in Jello. Rinse inside of mold with water, and pour in jello. Pop the whole thing in the fridge, and it will separate into layers as it cools. Remove from fridge, dip mold in hot water to loosen, and turn out onto plate. If you want to be fancy, cover the mixture with graham cracker crumbs before you unmold it, so it will be on top of a graham cracker crust, and decorate with twists of lime.
Mom called it a key lime Jello mold.
My aunt made the same thing, but used orange jello, and cool whip instead of cream cheese.
Her recipe
2 boxes orange jello
8 oz tub cool whip
Make it just like the key lime mold recipe, but use vanilla wafer crumbs instead of graham crumbs, and decorate with orange slices.
She called hers an orange creamsicle Jello mold
Moms Recipe:
Make 2 boxes jello, acoording to directions. While still hot, beat a softened 8oz. pkg cream cheese till smooth, then slowly beat in Jello. Rinse inside of mold with water, and pour in jello. Pop the whole thing in the fridge, and it will separate into layers as it cools. Remove from fridge, dip mold in hot water to loosen, and turn out onto plate. If you want to be fancy, cover the mixture with graham cracker crumbs before you unmold it, so it will be on top of a graham cracker crust, and decorate with twists of lime.
Mom called it a key lime Jello mold.
My aunt made the same thing, but used orange jello, and cool whip instead of cream cheese.
Her recipe
2 boxes orange jello
8 oz tub cool whip
Make it just like the key lime mold recipe, but use vanilla wafer crumbs instead of graham crumbs, and decorate with orange slices.
She called hers an orange creamsicle Jello mold
I like Jello desserts when the weather gets hot...as it has in southwestern Minnesota the past couple of days. Kevin, I recall seeing a similar dessert with separate layers of Jello and cream cheese when I was a kid in the 1960's. You're probably right to call them desserts, but here in the upper midwest they're often called Jello salads. There are popular "salads" made with pudding, too---one of my favorites being Snickers Salad, which is a box of vanilla pudding prepared with half the amount of milk, a carton of Cool Whip, three chopped Granny Smith apples and four full-size Snickers candy bars chopped into small pieces.
Quite honestly, I think we call them salads to justify eating them with (rather than after) the meal, LOL!
Quite honestly, I think we call them salads to justify eating them with (rather than after) the meal, LOL!
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Salads..
They are called salads here too, but mom's family always served them as desserts, so I call them desserts, lol. As much as Kentucky desperately clings to being a part of the south, we are really a mixture of the south and the Midwest, being on the fringes of both areas.
Moms family made that snickers salad too. I don't think any of the women in her family ever turned on the oven to make a dessert except for a birthday cake, or baking a few pie shells during the holidays, to make coconut, lemon, or chocolate pies. The rest of the time it was jello molds, icebox cakes, five cup salad, bride and groom salad, mandarin orange fluff, pink cloud, etc. Dozens of little concoctions involving Jello, pudding, cottage cheese, canned fruit, mini marshmallows, cookies and the like. I liked them as a kid, and still make them occasionally, but I must admit, I feel a bit as if I am serving something rather low on the culinary status totem pole when I make them, lol.
They are called salads here too, but mom's family always served them as desserts, so I call them desserts, lol. As much as Kentucky desperately clings to being a part of the south, we are really a mixture of the south and the Midwest, being on the fringes of both areas.
Moms family made that snickers salad too. I don't think any of the women in her family ever turned on the oven to make a dessert except for a birthday cake, or baking a few pie shells during the holidays, to make coconut, lemon, or chocolate pies. The rest of the time it was jello molds, icebox cakes, five cup salad, bride and groom salad, mandarin orange fluff, pink cloud, etc. Dozens of little concoctions involving Jello, pudding, cottage cheese, canned fruit, mini marshmallows, cookies and the like. I liked them as a kid, and still make them occasionally, but I must admit, I feel a bit as if I am serving something rather low on the culinary status totem pole when I make them, lol.
Kevin-- What is bride and groom salad?
Also: You mentioned salads with cookies. I make one called "Marlene's Salad" with pudding, mandarin oranges, and broken chocolate-covered graham cookies. Oh, and there's "Oreo Salad", too. And I love mandarin orange fluff. You'd think I'd have outgrown such things, but they're great comfort foods.
Also: You mentioned salads with cookies. I make one called "Marlene's Salad" with pudding, mandarin oranges, and broken chocolate-covered graham cookies. Oh, and there's "Oreo Salad", too. And I love mandarin orange fluff. You'd think I'd have outgrown such things, but they're great comfort foods.
Holiday Jello Salad
My grandmother made a tri-layer molded Jello salad for Christmas...layers of red, yellow-white and green. The red layer was plain red (cherry) Jello. The yellow-white layer was lemon Jello with cream cheese and crushed pineapple (thoroughly draining the juice from the pineapple and the cream cheese helped to buffer the concoction so it would not adversely affect the Jello from setting). The green layer was lime Jello with cream cheese.
Always looked forward to that.
Bob
My grandmother made a tri-layer molded Jello salad for Christmas...layers of red, yellow-white and green. The red layer was plain red (cherry) Jello. The yellow-white layer was lemon Jello with cream cheese and crushed pineapple (thoroughly draining the juice from the pineapple and the cream cheese helped to buffer the concoction so it would not adversely affect the Jello from setting). The green layer was lime Jello with cream cheese.
Always looked forward to that.
Bob
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bride and groom salad
My grandmother's recipe, and it's good, but odd. I swear, I wonder who comes up with these combinations....
Bride and Groom Salad:
1 box lime jello
1 box pistachio pudding
2 cup cottage cheese
large can crushed pineapple, lightly drained (it should be moist, but not wet)
2 cup mini marshmallows
10 oz cool whip
1 jar red maraschino cherries, drained
1 jar green maraschino cherries, drained
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
Beat jello, cool whip, pudding mix, lemon juice, and sugar till blended. Stir in remaining ingredients. Save a few of the cherries to scatter across the top.
My grandmother's recipe, and it's good, but odd. I swear, I wonder who comes up with these combinations....
Bride and Groom Salad:
1 box lime jello
1 box pistachio pudding
2 cup cottage cheese
large can crushed pineapple, lightly drained (it should be moist, but not wet)
2 cup mini marshmallows
10 oz cool whip
1 jar red maraschino cherries, drained
1 jar green maraschino cherries, drained
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
Beat jello, cool whip, pudding mix, lemon juice, and sugar till blended. Stir in remaining ingredients. Save a few of the cherries to scatter across the top.
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A few more recipes
Here are a few more of their dessert an salad recipes, they do come in handy this time of year.
Ice Box Cake:
2 boxes pudding, your choice of flavor
1 Box Graham Crackers, or vanilla wafers, or chocolate wafers
Make pudding according to directions on box. Line 9x13 pan with cookies, cover with layer of pudding, cover with layer of cookies, repeat layers until you have used up all the pudding and cookies. Top layer should be cookies. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Serve with cool whip. ( I make this with lemon pudding, vanilla wafers, and drizzle some lemon sauce over the cool whip on each plate when I want to impress someone without turning on the oven, lol) It really needs to sit overnight, so the cookies get soft and it becomes cohesive.
Pink Cloud:
1 box strawberry or raspberry jello
large tub cool whip
16 oz tub cottage cheese
Large can crushed pineapple, drained.
Mix it all, and chill before serving. (My aunt adds a handful of pecans).
Five Cup Salad:
1 cup each, mandarin oranges, pineapple tidbits, sour cream, shredded coconut, and mini marshmallows. Mix all, chill and serve.
Butterfinger Delight:
Store bought angel food cake
large tub cool whip
package of full size butterfinger candy bars
Caramel ice cream topping
Cute cake in cubes, crush candy bars. Mix crushed candy bars into cool whip, fold in cake cubes, drizzle with a little caramel topping for looks. Can also use heath bars. (butterfingers are better than heath, but I developed a peanut allergy which ended me eating butterfingers)
And my absolute favorite, which actually came from my dad's family,
Banana Split Cake:
2 cups graham cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup melted butter. Mix and press into 9x13 pan, chill.
2 cups powdered sugar, 1 stick butter, 2 raw eggs. Beat sugar and butter till combined, beat in eggs, and beat until fuffy, about 10 or 15 minutes with a hand mixer. Spread over crust.
Cover with a 6 sliced bananas, then cover them with a large can crushed pineapple, drained.
Mix 2 boxes vanilla pudding with 2 cups milk and 1 cup cool whip. Spread over fruit. Top with remaining cool whip (large tub).
Decorate top with 1 cup crushed walnuts, I jar drained maraschino cherries, and drizzles of chocolate syrup.
Here are a few more of their dessert an salad recipes, they do come in handy this time of year.
Ice Box Cake:
2 boxes pudding, your choice of flavor
1 Box Graham Crackers, or vanilla wafers, or chocolate wafers
Make pudding according to directions on box. Line 9x13 pan with cookies, cover with layer of pudding, cover with layer of cookies, repeat layers until you have used up all the pudding and cookies. Top layer should be cookies. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Serve with cool whip. ( I make this with lemon pudding, vanilla wafers, and drizzle some lemon sauce over the cool whip on each plate when I want to impress someone without turning on the oven, lol) It really needs to sit overnight, so the cookies get soft and it becomes cohesive.
Pink Cloud:
1 box strawberry or raspberry jello
large tub cool whip
16 oz tub cottage cheese
Large can crushed pineapple, drained.
Mix it all, and chill before serving. (My aunt adds a handful of pecans).
Five Cup Salad:
1 cup each, mandarin oranges, pineapple tidbits, sour cream, shredded coconut, and mini marshmallows. Mix all, chill and serve.
Butterfinger Delight:
Store bought angel food cake
large tub cool whip
package of full size butterfinger candy bars
Caramel ice cream topping
Cute cake in cubes, crush candy bars. Mix crushed candy bars into cool whip, fold in cake cubes, drizzle with a little caramel topping for looks. Can also use heath bars. (butterfingers are better than heath, but I developed a peanut allergy which ended me eating butterfingers)
And my absolute favorite, which actually came from my dad's family,
Banana Split Cake:
2 cups graham cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup melted butter. Mix and press into 9x13 pan, chill.
2 cups powdered sugar, 1 stick butter, 2 raw eggs. Beat sugar and butter till combined, beat in eggs, and beat until fuffy, about 10 or 15 minutes with a hand mixer. Spread over crust.
Cover with a 6 sliced bananas, then cover them with a large can crushed pineapple, drained.
Mix 2 boxes vanilla pudding with 2 cups milk and 1 cup cool whip. Spread over fruit. Top with remaining cool whip (large tub).
Decorate top with 1 cup crushed walnuts, I jar drained maraschino cherries, and drizzles of chocolate syrup.
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