Comments on: PastaQueen’s Not-So-Secret Recipes: Jell-O 1-2-3

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:55:06 +0000

This recipe is on all the sugar free Jell-o boxes now as a standard recipe.

By: Tori

Tori — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:43:27 +0000

Or if the liquid is still too hot from the cubes not melting all the way it will melt the topping.

By: Tori

Tori — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:40:43 +0000

It looks like the difference between your technique and the two you linked to was that they allowed the ice to melt before blending in the cool whip.

If the ice is still slushy in the blender when you add the whipped topping it can break the whipped cream and thusly not separate.

By: terryocean

terryocean — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:53:01 +0000

@Pamela R – ooo yum never thought of that…gunna try it!

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:45:01 +0000

Oh, my. I saw something just like this in the grocery store last week. It wasn’t a Jello brand product, but it layered like that, and I think it had 1-2-3 in the name. I’d go back to the store and look, but I’d evacuated for Ike and was hanging out with friends in Austin. I’ll look in my local grocery store the next time I get brave and leave the house.

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:16:02 +0000

I loved 123 Jello! I bring it up periodically to people “Remember that 3 level jello?!” Most people do not remember it. Thanks for letting me know that it wasn’t a figment of my imagination. ;) I kinda also wondered if they got rid of it cause it was bad for you or something. Cause, really, that stuff must have sold like hotcakes (in a cool jello form). We had it for “special occasions.” :P

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:10:52 +0000

Just to add to the Cool- Whippiness of this post…. take a tub of Sugar-Free chocolate Cool-Whip and freeze it. Oh. My. Gawd. So good and I think it is only like 50 calories for the whole darn thing. That is my PMS medicine.

By: K

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:52:40 +0000

@The Better Idiot – I’m confused – doesn’t trifle always and invariably involve custard, while the jello/jelly is optional? (To me, the custard is the best thing about trifle).

My mother’s version of trifle is just sponge, fruit, custard and cream, although my mother-in-law’s includes the jelly. Trying to find vegetarian jelly that isn’t readymade can be fun…

By: Biz

Biz — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:28:04 +0000

I totally forgot about that product!

Thanks for the nostalgia!

By: Pamela R

Pamela R — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:24:56 +0000

My favorite way to use jello these days is to stir the powder into my Fage Greek 0% yogurt for flavoring.