Where do I start with this dessert? The repeated failure of trying to make jello? The cookbook catching fire? The final sloppy result? I'll just start at the very beginning.
After I read this recipe yesterday I envisioned three Easter-egg colors of jello cubes (raspberry, orange, lime) mixed in a lime jello-whipping cream sauce sitting in a graham cracker crust. That doesn't sound so bad. I tried to get a head start by making my three jellos last night and leaving them overnight in the refrigerator to become firm.
This morning, much to my surprise, they were indeed firm. Yippee! I cut them into small cubes and put them all back in one bowl in the refrigerator. I then turned on the stove to boil the water for the lime jello syrup and proceeded to make the crust of graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter.
ACK! Out of the corner of my eye, I saw fire around the edge of the Cross Family Cookbook!! I had turned on the wrong burner! I had turned on a burner that had the edge of the Cookbook on it! I grabbed the book and ran water over it to put out the flames. Unfortunately, the back upper corner is ashes, and much of the I Remember section is destroyed. On the bright side, NO RECIPES WERE BURNED! It took me a few minutes to air out the house, but on with the cake...
I put the lime jello in the refrigerator to become syrupy. I finished the crust. I whipped the cream. So far, so good. Ready to assemble the cake.
I folded the lime syrup into the whipped cream. Yuck, but OK. I put the jello cubes in next. They started falling apart. When I tried to 'fold' them in, I had a liquid mess. I put this concoction in the crust and put it in the refrigerator to see what would happen.
After a few hours, the crust was an impenetrable mass of gunk. However, the whipped cream-jello tasted OK, so I poured that into a separate container.
When Andy got home, I asked him to try the dessert. He says it's kind of different, but not bad.
After I read this recipe yesterday I envisioned three Easter-egg colors of jello cubes (raspberry, orange, lime) mixed in a lime jello-whipping cream sauce sitting in a graham cracker crust. That doesn't sound so bad. I tried to get a head start by making my three jellos last night and leaving them overnight in the refrigerator to become firm.
This morning, much to my surprise, they were indeed firm. Yippee! I cut them into small cubes and put them all back in one bowl in the refrigerator. I then turned on the stove to boil the water for the lime jello syrup and proceeded to make the crust of graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter.
ACK! Out of the corner of my eye, I saw fire around the edge of the Cross Family Cookbook!! I had turned on the wrong burner! I had turned on a burner that had the edge of the Cookbook on it! I grabbed the book and ran water over it to put out the flames. Unfortunately, the back upper corner is ashes, and much of the I Remember section is destroyed. On the bright side, NO RECIPES WERE BURNED! It took me a few minutes to air out the house, but on with the cake...
I put the lime jello in the refrigerator to become syrupy. I finished the crust. I whipped the cream. So far, so good. Ready to assemble the cake.
I folded the lime syrup into the whipped cream. Yuck, but OK. I put the jello cubes in next. They started falling apart. When I tried to 'fold' them in, I had a liquid mess. I put this concoction in the crust and put it in the refrigerator to see what would happen.
After a few hours, the crust was an impenetrable mass of gunk. However, the whipped cream-jello tasted OK, so I poured that into a separate container.
When Andy got home, I asked him to try the dessert. He says it's kind of different, but not bad.
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