Holiday Cran Raspberry Jello Food

AMAZING JELL-O CRANBERRY SALAD (AKA CRANBERRY CRACK)

Steps:

• In large bowl, dissolve jello in 2 cups boiling water.
• Add pineapple juice to measuring cup and add water until you have 1.5 cups pineapple juice and water combined.
• Add pineapple juice/water to jello, stir.
• Place cranberries and sugar into food processor and pulse till sugar is thoroughly combined and the cranberries are in small pieces
• Add chopped apple, pineapple, mandarin oranges, nuts and cranberry pieces to large serving container..
• Add liquid jello to dish and stir everything around.
• Place in fridge.
• When ready to serve, with a fork, stir cranberry jello salad around with a fork, breaking up the jello.
• Transfer to a serving dish and enjoy!

CRAN-RASPBERRY JELLO SALAD

Steps:

• Mix strawberry jello with 1 1/2 cup hot water until dissolved.
• Stir in 1 cup whole cranberries and can crushed pineapple.
• Pour into large jello ring mold (*see note above), refrigerate until set.
• Spread with a thin layer of sour cream, let set.
• Mix raspberry jello with 1 1/2 cup hot water until dissolved.
• Stir in frozen raspberries.
• Slowly pour (or spoon) raspberry jello mixture on top of sour cream layer. refrigerate until set.
• Remove from jello mold and enjoy.
• **optional, you may use a little baking spray to spray mold for easy removal of jello
• If you don't have a jello mold, a large clear bowl or even a rectangle clear baking dish would work (but it's so pretty made in a jello mold)

OLD FASHIONED RASPBERRY CRANBERRY JELLO SALAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Empty the jello packets into a large mixing bowl. Pour over 2 cups of boiling water. Stir with a whisk for two minutes until completely dissolved.
• Stir in *HALF* of the pink lemonade can (if using a 12 oz size) and the softened vanilla ice cream. The ice cream will melt and distribute evenly.
• Next stir in the cranberry sauce. It will also break apart and un-gel in the warm jello mixture.
• Follow this by folding in the raspberries. You may need to change from a whisk to a large spoon at this point.
• Spray the bundt pan or chosen dish well with nonstick cooking spray. We found a six cup capacity pan worked the best, with a little extra jello mixture left over. You can place any extra in smaller bowls also sprayed with nonstick spray.
• If using a flexible mold you should place it on a plate. Since it's not rigid it moves around a lot when trying to move from counter to the fridge!
• Pour or scoop in the jello mixture into the containers.
• Cover with cling film to avoid the jello absorbing any odors from your refrigerator. Sometimes Saran Wrap doesn't stick well and you may have to place aluminum foil on top of it to get a nice seal.
• Allow to set in the refrigerator for at least an hour. I like to go for 2 to 3. Overnight is great too!
• Once the jello is set, place in a warm water bath for 10 seconds to help loosen the edges. Invert on a plate. If it doesn't slide out, maintain a firm grip on both the plate and the back of the bundt pan and shake vigorously. You may have to repeat the water bath. See notes in the post for more information on this.
• Once on the platter, garnish as you desire. Use nuts, whipped cream, berries and fresh herbs like mint.

CRAN-RASPBERRY JELLO SALAD

Steps:

• In a bowl dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
• Add undrained pineapple and cranberry sauce, stirring until cranberry sauce melts.
• Chill until partially set by placing bowl into a larger bowl of ice water or chill in refrigerator.
• Pour half of the gelatin mixture into a 6 1/2-cup ring mold, or large serving dish. Chill until almost firm. Let the remaining gelatin stand at room temperature.
• In small bowl stir sour cream; spread evenly over the almost firm gelatin in the mold or serving dish.
• Gently spoon the remaining gelatin mixture on top of the sour cream layer. Chill until firm.
• Unmold onto serving plate, or simply spoon it out from mold or serving dish.

HOLIDAY CRANBERRY JELLO SALAD

Steps:

• Bring water to a boil.
• Add hot water to a med-large tempered bowl along with the orange juice and jello flavoring packets and disssolve thoroughly.
• Chill until syrupy (30-40 mins)in a 9 x 9 or 9 X 13 dish (the only slight difference will be the depth of salad).
• Chop celery finely in Food Processor, remove to a small dish and set aside.
• Peel rind close to the zest.
• Grind rind and cranberries in food processor until chopped ever so thinly (I remember when we chopped all by hand!).
• Add sugar and mix with cranberry mixture. I stir right into food processor for one less dish.
• When jello is syrupy, add cranberry mixture, nuts and finely chopped celery, mixing well in your dish.
• Or you can transfer into a mold.
• Refrigerate until firm (several hours).

HOLIDAY CRAN-RASPBERRY JELLO

Steps:

• Boil 2 Cups of water, add to Jello, and stir untill dissolved.
• Add cranberry sauce, use electric mixer to blend and dissolved sauce.
• Add 1 cup os ice, stirring untill ice melts, than add the second cup of ice,.
• slowly. When jello starts to thicken, remove extra ice pieces.
• Lightly blend in sour cream with a mixer, but don’t mix thoroughly. Stir in oranges and nuts.
• Spray jello mold with Pam spray and fill with jello mixture. Let set inches.
• refrigerator for 2 hours. Place onto holiday dish and garnish with more oranges or parsley.

HOLIDAY CRANBERRY JAM

Steps:

• In a food processor, coarsely process cranberries and orange sections. Place in a Dutch oven with strawberries and sugar. Bring to a full rolling boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute. , Remove from the heat and stir in the pectin. Skim off the foam. Carefully ladle into hot half-pint jars, leaving 1/4-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles; wipe rims and adjust lids. Process for 10 minutes in a boiling-water canner.

CRAN/RASPBERRY JELLO SALAD

Steps:

• Be sure that raspberries and pineapple are well drained. If too much liquid is left in them, the jello will not set up.
• Mix the jello according to package directions, using the juices from the drained fruits as part of the cold liquid.
• Stir in the remaining ingredients, breaking up the cranberry sauce well.
• Put into a 9x13 pan and chill until set (Because of the amount of fruit, this takes awhile to set. Leaving it overnight is best).

CRANBERRY SALAD IN RASPBERRY JELLO WITH CREAM CHEESE TOPPING

Steps:

• Pick over cranberries.
• Chop cranberries in food processor until fine.
• Mix cranberries with sugar and let stand until sugar dissolves.
• Add 2 cups of boiling water into jello, and stir until the jello dissolves.
• Then add the 1 cup of cold water to the jello mixture.
• Let stand until cooled.
• Drain pineapple and reserve the juice.
• Add the pineapple, cranberries, and walnuts, and stir well.
• Pour into 9x13 dish.
• Chill to set.
• With a mixer, blend enough reserved pineapple juice into the cream cheese, until it becomes the consistency of whipped cream.
• Spread over the top of the chilled gelatin.
• Keep cold.

CRANBERRY-RASPBERRY JELLO SALAD

Steps:

• Dissolve Jello in water in large mixing bowl.
• Stir in cranberry sauce till completely blended.
• Add other ingredients.
• Pour into pan or Jello mold.
• Chill till firm.

SPARKLING HOLIDAY JAM

Steps:

• Sterilize jars and lids in boiling water for at least 10 minutes. Let simmer while making jam.
• In a large saucepan, combine strawberries, cranberries, pectin, and margarine. Bring to a boil. Stir in sugar, and return to a boil. Cook for 1 minute; remove from heat.
• Quickly fill jars to within 1/2 inch from top. Wipe rims clean, and put on lids. Process in a boiling water bath for 5 minutes.

HOLIDAY CRANBERRY-RUM COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Pour white rum into pitcher.
• Add a thin slice of peeled ginger. Using handle of a wooden spoon, crush ginger to release juices.
• Stir in 2 cups cold cranberry juice.
• Serve in martini glasses.