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Please
be careful!
Since
you must boil water for this recipe,
please share this activity with an
adult.
What
you need:
- Four
small packages of gelatin dessert mix (like JELL-O®
brand) in these colors:
- Purple
(like grape or blackberry)
- Green
(lime)
- Yellow
(lemon)
- Red
(like cherry, raspberry, or strawberry)
- 1
quart lemon or pineapple sherbet
- Whipped
cream
- Glass
casserole dish or glass bowl that can hold 8 cups of
liquid
- Measuring
cup
- Four
mixing bowls (or fewer, if you wash them out between
colors)
- Rotary
beater or whisk
What
to do:
- Do
these steps for each of the four colors of
gelatin:
- Dump
the gelatin mix into a bowl. Add 1 cup of boiling
water and stir until the gelatin is completely
dissolved.
- Important!
Let the gelatin mixture COOL to room
temperature.
- When
the gelatin mixture is cool, add 3/4 cup of the
sherbet, and mix in with the beater or whisk.
- One
color at a time, carefully pour the "pudding" mixtures
into the glass dish. Pour the colors in this order:
- Purple
(bottom)
- Green
- Yellow
- Red
(top)
- Put
the pudding into the refrigerator until it is completely
set.
- Now
for the artistic part. When you are ready to serve, scoop
out the servings at an angle so that you can see all the
different layers from the top. Depending on how much you
like whipped cream, make it look a little like one of
these TOPEX satellite images of the Pacific Ocean with
the El Niño condition. Use the whipped cream to
make the white "El Niño."
  
Of
course, when you're tired of being artistic, eat the rest of
the pudding! (Don't forget the whipped cream.)
Go
back to find out what is El Niño, anyway, and how we
got these pictures of it.
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