Hard

Broken Glass Cake

Total Time
2h 20m
35m prep · 105m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Hard
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🌾 Gluten-Free 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

This broken glass cake made with lime, orange, and strawberry gelatin is a light, child-friendly dessert we have always made for the children at Christmas. It is especially well-received after a heavy meal. You will be asked for seconds!

Ingredients

  • 1 , 3 ounce
  • 1 , 3 ounce
  • 1 , 3 ounce
  • 3 cups boiling water , divided
  • 3 cups cold water , divided
  • 1 cup canned pineapple juice
  • 1 , .25 ounce
  • 2.5 cups graham cracker crumbs
  • 0.5 cups butter , melted
  • 0.5 cups brown sugar
  • 2 cups chilled heavy cream
  • 0.5 cups white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. 1

    Place lime, orange, and strawberry gelatin mixes into 3 separate 9x9-inch glass dishes.

  2. 2

    Pour 1 cup boiling water into each flavor of gelatin mix; stir the gelatin until dissolved.

  3. 3

    Pour 1 cup cold water into each flavor of gelatin, stir to combine, and refrigerate the 3 flavors of gelatin until set, at least 4 hours.

  4. 4

    Heat pineapple juice in a saucepan until hot but not simmering. Stir unflavored gelatin into pineapple juice until dissolved. Refrigerate pineapple juice mixture until cool and thickened, about 30 minutes. Stir occasionally.

  5. 5

    Mix graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, and brown sugar together in a bowl. Set 1 cup of crumb mixture aside for garnish. Press remaining 2 cups crumb mixture into the bottom of a 9x13-inch cake pan to make a crust.

  6. 6

    Pour cream into a large metal mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until the cream is fluffy and forms soft peaks, about 3 minutes. Slowly beat sugar into whipped cream, 1 or 2 tablespoons at a time; beat in vanilla extract.

  7. 7

    Cut the different flavors of gelatin into cubes. Use a thin spatula to lift the cubes away from the bottom of the dish and loosen them.

  8. 8

    Very gently fold the thickened pineapple juice and gelatin cubes into the whipped cream mixture until thoroughly combined. Spoon into the graham cracker crust.

  9. 9

    Sprinkle the cake with reserved graham cracker crumb mixture.

  10. 10

    Refrigerate until set, at least 3 hours to overnight.

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