How about orange Jello? | How About Orange

February 08, 2008

How about orange Jello?

I'm not usually a big Jello fan, but I got inspired this week after looking at crazy pictures of Jello molds from the '50s. (Thanks, Diane.) And I do like orange, as well as anything that's kind of kooky. So I have to make these Jello oranges sometime. Not Martha's recipe with play-by-play is here, and Food Network's version with vodka is here.

(Image from Food Network)

20 comments:

Dea said...

I make these for the kids parties. I stick a toothpick with a sail shaped piece of rice paper to make a ship. They love them! I also add raspberries to raspberry jello and mandarin oranges to the orange. So cute!

Strawberry Cat said...

Food network Jello Shooters! Nice! My grown up parties will never be the same!

Amy said...

I found these jello oranges on Not Martha last summer and have been waiting for an excuse to use them for the longest time...still waiting!

Anonymous said...

Was first introduced to these at a party a few months ago and I fell in love! They were the vodka-infused ones you refer to in the post and they were a huge hit with both sexes. However, I'd like to try them in orange because unfortunately ours were made with red jello which consequently turned all our mouths a rosy shade of drunk.

Lucia Dinh said...

orange jello?! oooo i have to definitely try this when we have our summer parties. thanks.

Tina said...

Great Idea. At the first look of them, I thought they were orange slices.

Anina said...

My mom used to make us these all the time when I was little. Thanks for stirring up some happy memories.

Anonymous said...

Hi, Coming out of my lurking place to say: Love your posts but this one inparticular because I have kids that love jello jigglers and I have friends that love Jello shots. Thanks for the tidbit on how to make these.

Concha said...

My mum used to make these for our parties when we were little! :)

Anonymous said...

How fun! :)

Sara said...

Wow! This looks like delicious!

Maybe... I'll try to do it some day. I love oranges!

Cakespy said...

How delightfully kitsch! So cute!

Wendy said...

Wow, I love those orange slices.

I did a post about margarita jello here http://wisdomofthemoon.blogspot.com/2007/12/margarita-jell-o-shots.html

It's a huge hit at family parties. I used to bring it to Thanksgiving!

Jessica Jones said...

Truly awesome. I'm going to have make those this summer.

Denise said...

These look friggin awesome :)!

Trisha said...

I have this recipe in a Susan Branch cookbook of mine and I've always wanted to make them. How fun they look!!
(btw: I'm using a desktop background of your's...so cute!)

Alia said...

we made lime jello shots. Beware - you don't realize how muh you drink!!! :-) (but the orange adds some flavour to the jello)

Anonymous said...

Have you evere heard about the Orange's Battle in Ivrea (Italy)?
We shoot oranges one each other and there are more than 5000 people fighting!!

Jessica Jones said...

What!?!?! I'll have to research that!

Deanna said...

I made these for orange day when my son was in kindergarten! What a hit!! Thanks for reminding me about them.