Patriotic Jello - Red, White, and Blue

Jello is a nice thing to have on 100 degree days over the summer. It's easy to do, it just takes time to sit around and wait for the layers to harden.

Ingredients

• 2 3-ounce packages of cherry-flavored Jell-O (or one 6-ounce package split in half)
• 2 3-ounce packages of blueberry-flavored Jell-O (or one 6-ounce package split in half)
• 7 packets unflavored gelatin (4 oz packets)
• 2 14-ounce cans sweetened condensed milk, divided.
• 9 cups boiling water, divided

Directions

1. Combine 1.5 cups of boiling water with one package of cherry Jell-O and one package of unflavored gelatin. Whisk together until dissolved.
2. Pour Jello layer into  a glass 9x13 cake pan and place into fridge until cooled. (Roughly an hour)
3. Once the red layer is firm, combine in the mixing bowl: 1 packet of unflavored gelatin with 1 cup boiling water, whisking until dissolved. 
4. Add 1/2 of one of the cans of condensed milk and stir until combined. 
5. Pour the milk mixture into the measuring cup with the spout and set it in the refrigerator for ten minutes to let it cool a bit. (You don't want to pour hot liquid on top of another layer of Jell-O at any time during the process. Doing so will turn the white layer pink or light blue.)
6. Remove the baking dish and the cup of milk mixture from the refrigerator and gently pour the milk mixture on top of the red Jell-O layer.
7. Return dish to the fridge until firm.
8. Repeat step 1, but this time use the blue Jello.
9. Pour blue mixture into measuring cup and repeat step 5.
10. Repeat step 6.
11. Repeat milk layer, then red layer, then milk, then last blue. Final order should be: red-white-blue-white-red-white-blue for a total of 7 layers.

Thoughts:
This is pretty easy. The original recipe only called for 1 cup of water per colored Jello layer, and that wasn't producing thick enough layers in a 9x13 pan. So I changed it to 1 1/2 cups. Also, the original recipe said to use 2 28oz milk cans instead of 2 14oz cans, but you don't need that much milk, I believe it was a typo.

Next Time:

• Rainbow Jello.