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Broken Glass Cake

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480 min

Broken Glass Cake

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Time

480 min

Serving

12 persons

Calories

436

Rating

4.00★ (22)

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Author: Victoria Buriak
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

  • lime flavored Jell-O mix: 1 pack (3 ounce pack)
  • orange flavored Jell-O mix: 1 pack (3 ounce pack)
  • strawberry flavored Jell-O: 1 pack (3 ounce pack)
  • boiling water: 3 cups (divided)
  • water: 3 cups (divided, cold)
  • canned pineapple juice: 1 cup
  • unflavored gelatin: 1 pack (.25 ounce pack)
  • ½ cups graham cracker crumbs: 2 piece
  • butter: 0.5 cup (melted)
  • brown sugar: 0.5 cup
  • chilled heavy cream: 2 cups
  • white sugar: 0.5 cup
  • vanilla extract: 1 tsp

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  1. Place lime, orange, and strawberry gelatin mixes into 3 separate 9x9-inch glass dishes.
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  2. Pour 1 cup boiling water into each flavor of gelatin mix; stir the gelatin until dissolved.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  9. Sprinkle the cake with reserved graham cracker crumb mixture.
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  10. Refrigerate until set, at least 3 hours to overnight.
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