Strawberry & Lime Jello Milkshake

Jello!.....

The super good wiggly stuff is not just for pre packaged lunch cups anymore, actually I was never really one for eating my Jello from a package.

 I am very proud to say that Jello was officially the very first thing I was allowed to cook on my very own! 

I ate so much of this stuff, well I ate half as much as I drank.

For some reason I loved to spoon drink my pre-wobbly Jello right after I added in the boiling hot water, seriously the hot sweet stuff was like soup for my soul.

If you haven't tried it like this, I do highly recommend.

I think that memories of my childhood romance with Jello sparked the idea for an official drinkable version. 

And when I finally had a sip,

it was everything that the 8 year old hot Jello sipping aficionada ever dreamed it could be! And since Jello comes in so many assortments the flavor and the flavor combos are endless!

The super bonus to this recipe, is that it can be made in 3 little pasitos (steps)


Vamos a la cocina!

                                             Ingredients

1 cup milk

1 pkg. (4-serving size) Jello, any flavor

 

( I used Strawberry, Lime Jello & Vanilla Jello Pudding)

1 pint vanilla ice cream, softened

for the strawberry shake you can cut up a few strawberries and blend them right in, a splash of vanilla never hurt either for the vanilla pudding shake!

 

                                                            Directions

 

Place milk and ice cream in blender. Add Jello. Blend 30 seconds.

 

Garnish your yummy milkshake with add-ons like; cherries, strawberries, whip cream & sprinkles!

Strawberry Paletas

I really can't get enough of popsicles, they truly are for me one of the most refreshing ways to beat the summer heat.  Whether you are the type that likes to enjoy your icy cold treat by licking the sides and lapping up the sweet liquid before it hits the burning hot pavement.

Or if you are my type, the kind of person that likes to take big ole' bites of frozen goodness and savor the frigid chunks in your mouth , twisting it around with your tongue,  manuvering it cheek to cheek so that you can avoid the ever feared brain freeze.  Oddly, I can not stand to have chunks of anything in my drink, orange juice with pulp is forbidden in my house. 

As good as the Nantucket Nectar juice looks and tastes, I just can't get over the fleshy bits of fruit that stare up at me every time a take a drink.  However fruit in my paletas, or popsicles are a staple that I look forward to finding. I eagerly take big bites and wait for the moment my teeth bites into that perfectly chopped piece of frozen fruity heaven.

It's like a treat within a treat, plus I always convince myself that these type of paletas are so totally healthy because they are filled with fruit and basically just a teensy bit of sugar (well actually a lit more than teensy, but you know what I mean!) 

And for these reasons I am totally enomorada ( in love) with Mexican Paletas, many of the recipes include chopped fresh fruits like, mangoes, pineapples, watermelon, strawberries of course and even creamy chunks of avocados. fresh water, and sweet azcucar ( sugar).

What could be better than that?! So as the summer closes and your looking for a sweet summin, summin' for the last BBQ of the summer aka " Labor Day.Why not whip up some of these dulce paletas! And reminsce over those fleeting summer days. ♥

You will need a popsicle mold or you can use paper cups and popsicle sticks like I did.

Yields 6 Strawberry Paletas

Strawberry Paletas

Ingredients

3  3/4 cups of hulled strawberries

1/3 cup of sugar

1 tbsp lemon juice

Directions:
In a blender, blend  3 3/4 cups of  rinsed, hulled strawberries until smooth. Push through a fine
strainer into a 2-cup glass measure; discard residue. Add 1/3 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon lemon juice
to berry purée; stir until sugar is dissolved.

Pour paletas mixture equally into 6 juice bar molds. Attach covers. Insert sticks, leaving 1 1/2 to 2 inches of each exposed. Freeze paletas upright until firm, at least 3 hours or up to 2 weeks. 

Dos Parties! Don't Cry Over Spilt Helado Milkshakes

Dos Parties,? .....dos is the Spanish word for 2 and of course you all know what the word parties mean. Anyway, no I am not planning a fiesta any time soon. "Dos Parties" is what my teenage daughter said in her awkward ( I am learning Spanish only because it is part of my college prep curriculum, not because I am all things en Espanol, Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin loving maniac like my mama!) accent. 

No complaints here though, she has pulled nothing but straight A's in Spanish class since Freshman year! I'm a proud mama, if you can't already tell! hehehe...'What she really wanted to say was " Dos Partes" ( par-tay-s )which in English translates to " 2 Parts" and for her these spilt ice cream milkshakes were the second part to a dessert that I had recently made.  These fiesta ready Don't Cry Over Spilt Helado Cupcakes, actually they are the same but different.

The milkshake is a blend of Breyer's Strawberry Waffle Cone Ice Cream leftover from my Mexican Strawberry Fried Ice Cream , infused with dulce de leche. Then filled to the rim with creamy ice cream drizzled with sweet dulce de leche and rich chocolate sauce.  The ice cream cone is filled with marshmallow fluff to resemble spilt ice cream and a handful of  fiesta sprinkles ( this is what I love to call colorful sprinkles, cause they make me wanna party!)

My chicas actually decided that they wanted to crush the sugar cones up and mix them into the milkshakes, it was actually very yummy! Anyway in honor of my Spanish speaking chica this milkshake is affectionately dubbed the " Dos Parties Milkshake" or if she becomes too embarrassed by this post and forces me to change the name it can also be called

Don't Cry Over Spilt Helado Milkshake ♥

Ingredients

4 cups Breyer's Strawberry Waffle Cone Ice Cream or your desired flavor
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
8 tablespoons sugar
2 cups milk, less for thicker milkshakes
1 cup of fresh strawberries
2 sugar cones
dulce de leche or caramel
chocolate syrup
1 jar of marshmallow fluff
fiesta sprinkles or even nuts or chocolate chips would be yummy!


Directions
 

Using a blender, blend all ingredients together including 2 tbsp of ducle and except for your

sugar cones, until smooth. Pour into a mason jar or tall glass, drizzle with chocolate sauce a

and dulce de leche. Fill the sugar cone with a tablespoon of marshmallow fluff, a little

more if you really love the stuff! Place the marshmallow filled cone on top of the glass,

shower with fiesta sprinkles plump strawberries don't forget the straw and Enjoy, Disfrutalo!

 








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Mexican Strawberry Fried Ice Cream

Mexican Fried Ice Cream....... I have to admit just the name was a complete turn off to me for a long time. First of all I am not a huge fan of ice cream, gasp! I know for those who know me it's a fact that's hard to understand.I have been berated with questions about my aversion to the creamy treat that is the "unofficial" summer time staple.

For me though I just never found it to be as satisfying as a nice "grande"chocolaty hunk of cake. Okay and about the whole " fried " thing....um mm... it just didn't sound right. I imagined a big ball of velvety smooth ice cream drenched and dripping with greasy oil! Ahh, that's a big heaping spoonful of NO GRACIAS!, after a spicy Mexican dinner. 

And what was that brown coating? It looked like coconut, it must be coconut and that's where my assumptions about Mexican Fried Ice Cream stayed until this week. For some reason a previously avoided dessert was suddenly on my mind. I decided to put away my fears and do a little investigation on the truth behind Mexican Fried Ice Cream.

And what I found out is that it wasn't what I thought at all! I was fascinated by a new flavor from Breyer's it was "Strawberry Chocolate Dipped Waffle Cone" it was not the ordinary strawberry, chocolate and vanilla so I figured I'd give it a try,

when rolled in the Mexican canela ( cinnamon) smothered in crushed Corn Flakes, yes Corn Flakes ( turns out there is no coconut in this recipe at all) oops my bad! And dipped in the hot oil for 2 seconds, yes, just 2 eensy, weensy seconds....just long enough to crisp it, not long enough for drenching.


Drizzled with chocolate syrup and dulce de leche what is left after that is something that is ooey, gooey, crisp and cold all at the same time. I'm saddened to say that it took me this long to give this notable and fun dessert a chance. Now that I see how quick and easy these are to make, I'm eager to make them again!

Adapted from The Original Chi Chi's Mexican Restaurant Recipe

Ingredients

1/4 cup granulated sugar

4 teaspoons Mexican Canela or  cinnamon

1/4 cup kellogg's corn flake crumbs

1 maraschino cherry or a sprinkle of plump strawberries

 a drizzle of chocolate syrup and/or dulce de leche or even sweet agave syrup

 

 

 

Directions

1.Form 1 heaping scoop of your favorite ice cream into a ball.

 

2.Roll the ball of ice cream in the cinnamon sugar mixture until completely coated

3.Roll in corn flake crumbs till coated.

 

4.Place in the freezer to harden. 10 min

 

5.Place the hardened ice cream ball in a fry basket and deep fry for 2 seconds at 350 degrees

fahrenheit.