I always enjoy trying to create the "next best thing" each holiday dinner, I feel it's a great way to tap the "inner artist" in me! :) Unfortunately jello hasn't always been good to me, and to be fair to jello I haven't always given it a fair chance. For instance the time I tried to create using a Springform pan. No one told me, and I failed to notice that on the inside of the pan there is a lip that you are supposed to rest the bottom of the pan on. I rested the bottom of the pan on the opposite end, tightened the springs and it seemed to hold together nicely. I proceeded to fill the pan with some delicious jello that I had just dissolved in water. As I lifted the pan off the counter and opened the refrigerator door the bottom fell out and jello went EVERYWHERE.
Nothing quite that funny happened this year, but we did have a few laughs over jello. Wednesday night before Thanksgiving I started creating, I figured I'd do it the night before so it would have plenty of time to set. Thursday afternoon Ben and I drove over to Kirkland with the jello still in the mold, everything was lookin' good. I had layered two kinds of jello (Black Cherry & Orange) and added raspberries with a lil' Cool Whip.
When it came time to de-mold, the top layer decided to stay firmly in it's place. We thought we could put some toothpicks in the middle layers and then place the top layer on the toothpicks.
The following pictures are what happened during the next 30 seconds of this jello's life...
We ended up enjoying this creation in a bowl as the mold failed to hold up on its own. (It did turn out to be quite tasty.) This is what my dad thought about it...
*Disclaimer* All persons who handled jello had thoroughly washed their hands before the de-molding process began. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.
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