Rainbow Jello
PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
This is a favorite Easter Recipe that my children love. Who doesn’t love layers of colored jello with gobs of Cool Whip or whipping cream on top? It is so festive and beautiful. The magic of the rainbow is real. Everything is more beautiful with a rainbow of colors.
How to Make Rainbow Jello
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Rainbow Jello
6 (6oz.)boxes of gelatinGrape, Berry Blue, Green, Lemon, Orange, Cherry
1 Cup Sour Cream
1 Cup Sour Cream
2 Cups of Heavy Cream
1/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
1. Get a saucepan of water boiling.
2. Empty grape packet into a bowl.
3. Pour in two cups of boiling water.
4. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
5. Put 1 Tbsp. of sour cream in a separate bowl.
6. Pour 1 cup of grape jello into the bowl with sour cream.
7. Mix well.
8. Fill a third bowl halfway full with ice.
9. Place the bowl with grape jello and sour cream inside the bowl with ice.
10. Stir continuously for one minute. Pour the sour cream grape in a large 13 x 9.
11. Wait 20 minutes before adding the grape jello. You might need to cool the plain grape jello in the bowl of ice for 30 seconds or more.
12. Repeat steps 2-10 for each new color of gelatin. You only need to wait 10 minutes after each level. Make sure each new layer is cool to the touch before adding to the previous layer.
13. Whip the heavy cream and add powdered sugar until stiff.
I use the six colors of the color wheel, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and I finish with red. This is an easy recipe, only time consuming.6 (6oz.)boxes of gelatin
1 cup of Sour Cream
1 tub of Cool Whip
I like to start with Purple and work my way up so red is on top. I like the yellow in the middle as I think it is washed out on top.
Boil water on stove. Have three bowls to dissolve gelatin. One for the first color, another for the second color and the third for ice.
Dissolve the first package of gelatin in 2 cups of boiling water. Once dissolved, divide the gelatin into two bowls. Add 1 Tbsp. sour cream to one of the bowls.
Mix with a wire wisk until well blended. Put the bowl of gelatin with the sour cream in it on the ice bed in the third bowl. Stir the gelatin until it is cold when you stick your finger in it. Pour this in a 9 x 13 pan and place in the refrigerator until well set. I find this takes about 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, place the other bowl of gelatin on the bed of ice.
You may have to replace the bed of ice each time you use it as it begins to melt with the bowl of hot gelatin on it.
Stir until the gelatin is cold when you place your finger in it. Pour this over the first layer of jello. Hopefully, you have waited long enough and the first layer is nice and hard and this second layer doesn't bleed through the first layer.
You continue to do this over and over again, with each new flavor until all your colors are in your pan. I find after the first layer sits for 20 minutes, each layer after that only takes 10 minutes.
Serve with a big dollop of Cool Whip. I tend to like cool whip over whipping cream with jello, but you be the judge.
It's a riddle - How long does it take to make rainbow jello. Use Grape, Blue Raspberry, Lime, Lemon, Orange (or Peach) and last of all Strawberry (or Cherry). The first layer takes 20 minutes to set and each layer after that takes 10 minutes.