How to Use Jello to Flavor Your Dessert Recipes

Jello is traditionally combined with water or another liquid such as 7Up, cola or fruit juice and left to set in the refrigerator. However, sometimes jello powder is used in other ways.

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You might want to try mixing the jello powder with the amount of hot water called for on the back of the packet but omitting the cold water. This is how you make finger jello, so named because it is solid enough to pick up and eat with the fingers.

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Using Dry Jello Powder in Recipes

Another way to use jello is to flavor your dessert recipes by adding the jello to a recipe. You can use the same jello flavor as your dessert or a contrasting flavor.

If you are making a strawberry cake, for example, you might like to add some lime jello powder to the cake for a tangy taste or you can add strawberry jello to intensify the strawberry flavor.

Using Dry Jello in Savory Dishes

There are some savory dishes, which call for jello powder. For example, you can make a delicious Chinese lemon chicken with lemon jello. Lemon jello granules are sweet but so is Chinese lemon chicken so it works wonderfully.

Rhubarb Cobbler with Strawberry Jello

The following recipe combines strawberry jello powder with fresh rhubarb and other tasty ingredients for a really great tasting dessert. Rhubarb is both sweet and tart at the same time and is ideal for people who do not like over sweet desserts.

This recipe serves two people if you serve it alone or four if you serve it with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream.

The rhubarb is flavored with the strawberry jello powder and it sits in a homemade pastry base and is topped with a sweet topping, which dissolves in the oven, soaking up the flavors from the rhubarb and the strawberry jello.

Strawberry and Rhubarb Cobbler Recipe

What you will need:
1 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 stick plus 2 tablespoons butter 1 beaten egg 3 cups chopped rhubarb 2 tablespoons milk 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 3 oz package strawberry jello
How to make it:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cut 2 tablespoons of butter into 1 cup of the flour until you have a mixture like fine breadcrumbs. Add the milk, eggs, salt, and baking powder and make a soft dough.

Press it into an 8 x 8 inch pan, pressing the dough up the pan sides. Put the rhubarb in the bottom and sprinkle the jello powder over the top.

Combine the rest of the flour with the rest of the butter and the sugar to make the topping. Sprinkle this over the jello powder and bake for about 30 minutes or until the rhubarb is soft.

How to Use Jello to Flavor Your Dessert Recipes

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