The 4th of July is almost here! Eek! I’m so excited for the 4th this year, because lots of my family members are coming to visit. It’s going to be a big party, all weekend.
So, of course I’ve already started planning out the menu. Because that’s what I do. 🙂 Remember me? Leia, from Eat It & Say Yum. I shared my Pineapple Soak Cake recipe with you guys a couple weeks ago. Today I’m sharing my Patriotic Jello Dessert recipe.
And this Patriotic Jello Dessert would be perfect! Not only is it fun, with the red, white and blue layers. It’s great to make the day ahead and have ready to go when needed. So you’re not wasting time in the kitchen when you could be playing with family and friends.
This dessert starts with a layer of pretzel crust on the bottom. I top that with a thin layer of the cream cheese filling, just so the blueberry jello doesn’t seep through the pretzels. Then I use the rest of the cream cheese filling, and top that with the strawberry layer.
It makes for a super fun, and festive, Patriotic dessert.
Allow yourself plenty of time to chill each layer, to prevent them from mixing together. The whole point of this dessert is to see those separate colors.
What’s your favorite food to eat on the 4th of July? You might also like my Patriotic Ice Cream Sandwiches, or a fantastic French Apple Pie!
Happy July 4th, everyone! 🙂
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Patriotic Jello Dessert
Ingredients
- 2 cups crushed pretzels
- 6 Tbs butter- melted
- ½ cup sugar- divided
- 12 oz cream cheese- at room temperature
- 2-3 Tbs milk
- 3 cups cool whip- thawed
- 2 cups boiling water- divided
- 1 ½ cups cold water- divided
- 2 cups sliced strawberries
- 1 cup blueberries- frozen works great
- 1 box of blue jello- the 4 serving size
- 1 box strawberry jello- the 4 serving size
Instructions
- Crush the pretzels, then mix with the butter and 1/4 cup of the sugar. Press into a greased 9x13 pan. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes, then let cool completely.
- Mix the blue jello with one cup of the boiling water, stir. Add 3/4 cup of the cold water and stir. Add the blueberries and set in fridge until ready to use.
- Repeat step 2, but with the strawberry jello, and sliced strawberries. Leave on counter until ready to use.
- Beat the cream cheese with the remaining 1/4 cup sugar. Slowly add the milk and fold in the cool whip. Spread about 1/3 of the cream cheese mixture over the pretzel crust, gently so you don't break up the crust too much. Pour the blue jello mixture over the cream cheese layer. Let sit in fridge until set. Then spread the remaining cream cheese over the blue jello. Carefully pour the red jello over top. Set in fridge until firmed up, and ready to serve.
Thanks so much, Leia for this weeks recipe! It’s always wonderful to celebrate the 4th of July with family and friends and eating patriotic desserts make it that much more fun!
Be sure to check back in a few weeks to see what Leia has made for us!
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Comments & Reviews
How simple, fun and patriotic — my kids will love this! Hope you have a fun 4th!
Great recipe. A nice patriotic change from strawberry pretzel jello which I have to make for every family function. Only one big problem. There is not enough butter in the pretzel crust to make the pretzels that when cooled. The pretzels remain a mass of crumbs Making it very difficult to spread the cream cheese whipped topping layer. I ended up having to use way too much of the cream cheese mixture just to make a layer with the crumbs getting in the way . Also if you make the Jell-O layers to soon also if you make the Jell-O layers to soon as directed they set up before you need them , they set up before you need them. Recipe itself is delicious just a few tweaks in the preparation
Correction to my previous reply. It was supposed to say there’s not enough butter to make the pretzels set when cool. They stay loose crumbs
This was a fail for me. I’ve made strawberry pretzel salad for years so I thought why not add a blue layer? I added extra butter to the pretzels to make it clump. As soon as I poured the blue jello over the first layer of white…it displaced and went below the white, leaving blueberries only and floating cream cheese. Will let it set up and see if I can save it.
Melissa, I’m sorry to hear that happened and hoping you were able to rescue it!
Something went terribly wrong. When I poured blueberry jello with blueberries over cream cheese it all just soaked into the crust which was baked for 10 minutes previously., Spreading cream cheese whip mixture over crust was tedious. It appeared that one must double the jello amount called for in order to get a layer? Then I doubled the red jello and it still didn’t form a layer, I had chilled as instructed. I would not make this again but will take the idea of pretzel crust and try something else. Mine looked nothing like the one in the picture.
Am taking to a party regardless, but it just doesn’t look very pretty like one in picture. 🙁