Raspberry Gelatin

This one's a great holiday salad. I'm going to start with two small three-ounce packages of a raspberry gelatin

And then I'm going to add, to make sure this holds together real good, I'm going to add about a half an envelope of plain gelatin

All right, now I'm going to take a cup of boiling water

and pour that over in our gelatin. And I'm just going to stir this up until it dissolves

which only takes a minute. Now to this, I'm going to add a half a cup of cold water

I'm going to add one 8-ounce package of crushed pineapple along with its juice

It's going to give it a nice pineapple-y flavor. All right, and to this, I'm going to add one can of whole berry cranberry sauce

Now, this is not the jelly type that you slice. You can see it's whole berries

So we're just going to dump that in there. And then we going to add some chopped walnuts And this is about a fourth of a cup

All right, so that's all we have to do to that. All right, I don't have a pretty mold, but that's not a problem

I'm just going to take a brown bowl, and I'm just going to pour it into our grease bowl

and put this in the refrigerator until it's nice and set. So in it goes

And out comes another one. All right. There's so many different angles that you can go with your gelatin salad, and I'm going

to show you my surprise center. All right, now I'm going to start with an 8-ounce package of cream cheese

And I'm going to sweeten it up a little bit by adding a little powdered sugar to it

All right now I going to add a couple of dollops of sweetened whipped cream just enough to kind of smooth out that cream cheese

Next, I'm just going to fold in some nuts. There, and we've got our little surprise center ready

All right, I'm going to take our jiggly salad over here. I'm just going to run the knife around it

and then I'm going to just dunk it into a bowl of warm water

And I'm going to take my bowl, center it up, flip it over

Now, I'm gonna take a juice can that I've cut both ends out of and I'm gonna come in here

So if you don want to have to worry about struggling with that you can bring your salad out a little earlier than I did All right now I just going to slip that out

All right, and you can see how pretty that is. I've made a center. It's almost like

I've molded this in a bundt pan. So now I'm just going to take my cream cheese

and I'm going to fill up that hole with the cream cheese

And I have to tell you, there's just nothing better than cream cheese and cranberries

So this is a couple of different ways that you can serve your salad. And I'm sure you probably

have some wonderful ideas of your own, but I have to say this is one of my favorites

because, like I said, when I slice it, I'm going to get me some wonderful, wonderful cream cheese

with it. See, this is what it'll look like when we slice it. One of my favorite flavor combinations