What Is Jello and How Can I Use It?
Here's everything worth knowing about jello and how to pick it, what it is, how to store it, and what to use instead, plus 184 recipes to cook tonight.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 package 3 oz, yields 2 cups (540g)Where found
Jello is usually found in the candy section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Food group
Jello is a member of the Sweets US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
How much does jello weigh?
| Amount | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 package 3 oz, yields 2 cups | 540 grams |
| ½ cup | 135 grams |
Related
Sweets
| In Chinese: | 果冻 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | jello | |
| en español: | gelatina |
Recipes using jello
There are 184 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Jello Any-Fruit Cake
A soft cake bottom, with a fruit filled middle topped with a tantalizing cinnamon topping. Learning how to make Jello fruit cake that use any fruit you have on hand including summery rhubarb with strawberry gelatin.
Easy Homemade Rhubarb Jam
Easy rhubarb jam made with just three ingredients: fresh rhubarb, sugar and a packet of Jello for instant flavor and color. No pectin, no thermometer, 20 minutes start to jar.
Margarita Jello Shooters
Jello shooters are a really fun way to get the crowd loose. Thanks to Lori, my neighbor, for this delicious recipe...just in time for the NFL season!
Grandma's Rhubarb Jam (Freezer Jam)
Grandma's three-ingredient rhubarb jam with strawberry jello for color and set. Freezer-jam method, no canning required. Macerate overnight, boil, jar, freeze.
Apple-Rhubarb Dump Cake
This Apple-rhubarb recipe with strawberry gelatin is super easy, just dump and bake. Reminiscent of a strawberry-rhubarb pie without the fuss of a crust, more like a rhubarb crisp.
Creamsicle Cake
If you can't find orange cake mix, use white or golden---just use orange juice in place of the water when preparing the mix, and add 1 tsp. of orange extract/flavoring. To the topping I also add 3/4 tsp. each of vanilla and orange extract. Garnish, if desired, with Mandarin orange segments.
Robb's Tropical Lime Cake
Tropical lime poke cake from a lemon cake mix and lime jello, soaked with a tangy lime sugar glaze that seeps into fork-pierced holes for moist, citrusy bites all the way through.
Sugar-Free Strawberry Pie
Try sugar-free, but scrumptious pie that's made with jello and strawberries!
Veggie Vomit
Veggie vomit is a Halloween gross-out lime jello salad with grated cabbage, carrots, crushed pineapple, and mandarin oranges. Kids love the gross name; the salad tastes great.
Orange Gelatin Dessert
Orange gelatin dessert with vanilla ice cream stirred into the Jello and layered with mandarin oranges. A creamy, dreamsicle-flavored retro treat with just 4 ingredients.
Penn & Teller Dessert
Penn & Teller dessert is a theatrical bleeding Jell-O mold for Halloween: thick red gelatin and whipped topping hiding a bag of fake blood that gushes when you cut in. A gory, show-stopping party prank dessert.
Lemon Supreme Chiffon
Lemon chiffon dessert with a graham cracker crust, fluffy lemon Jello and egg white filling, topped with sweetened whipped cream. A retro no-bake icebox treat.
Cherry Jubilee Salad
A retro molded Jello salad loaded with dark sweet cherries, pineapple chunks, and chopped pecans, spiked with red wine and nutmeg. Potluck royalty.
Cherry Coke Salad
Retro Southern Jello salad with dark cherries, crushed pineapple, and pecans set in cherry gelatin and Coca-Cola. Molded, chilled, and ready to steal the potluck.
Light & Fruity Fruit Pie
No-bake fruity Jello pie with whipped topping and your choice of fruit in a graham cracker crust. Light, fluffy, and ready in 30 minutes with no oven needed.
Kalakaua
Kalakaua is a Hawaiian-inspired pineapple Jello mold made right in the can. Lime gelatin poured over canned pineapple rings, chilled, and unmolded into a neat cylinder.
Yarborough Pie
Retro fruit pie with sour cherries, crushed pineapple, bananas, and cherry Jello in a graham cracker crust topped with whipped cream. A vintage no-bake dessert that brings the church potluck right to your kitchen.
Key Largo Cake
Key Largo cake made with tropical liqueur and fruit Jello baked into the batter, soaked with a boozy powdered sugar glaze, and topped with whipped cream and tropical fruit.
Jello Skating Pond Recipe
Jello skating pond dessert: blue jello set in a clear pie plate, topped with whipped cream snow banks, gummy bear skaters, and a wafer roll log. A winter craft dessert kids can build themselves.
Strawberry-Banana Jell-O Salad
Strawberry-banana Jell-O salad with banana pudding, whipped topping, fruit cocktail, and walnuts. A fluffy retro picnic salad that's more dessert than side.
Ralph's Retch
Ralph's Retch, a gleefully gross Halloween drink for kids: strawberry jello chopped into wobbly globs, layered with crushed ice and fizzy strawberry soda. A no-cook party gag that tastes like a sweet slushie.
Strawberry Ice Box Cake
Strawberry icebox cake layered with vanilla wafer crumbs, whipped cream, and Jello-marshmallow filling. A vintage no-bake dessert that sets up in the fridge with zero oven time.
Nasty Spider Cake
Halloween spider cake filled with green Jello that oozes when sliced, frosted black with licorice legs and gumdrop eyes. Gross, fun, and unforgettable.
Pineapple Orange Chocolate Cake
No-bake pineapple orange chocolate cake with orange Jello, crushed pineapple, and whipped topping layered over pre-baked chocolate cake. A retro icebox-style dessert that chills instead of bakes.
