Best Icebox Lemon Jello Cake Recipes

LEMON ICE-BOX CAKE I

Steps:

• To Prepare Crust: mix graham crackers, 1/2 cup sugar and melted butter and press into 9 x 13 inch pan.
• Mix lemon gelatin with 1 cup boiling water and let cool.
• Meanwhile, whip the chilled evaporated milk, add the 1 cup sugar and lemon juice. Whip until sugar is dissolved. Whip in the cooled gelatin into the milk mixture then stir in pineapple.
• Pour lemon mixture over crust in pan. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup crushed graham crackers and chopped maraschino cherries if desired. Chill several hours or overnight. Variation: Mix one 8 ounce package of cream cheese with the 1 cup sugar; add this to the whipped milk, gelatin and lemon juice mixture. Stir in pineapple then proceed as above.

WOOLWORTH ICE BOX CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Dissolve Jell-O in boiling water. Cool until slightly thickened.
• Beat cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice with mixer until smooth. Add thickened Jell-O and beat well.
• In a separate bowl, beat the Carnation milk until fluffy. Add cream cheese/Jell-O mixture and beat well with mixer.
• Line bottom of 9 x 13-pan with crushed Graham crackers, if not using pre-made crust.
• Spread filling over and top with more crushed Graham crackers. Chill.

ICEBOX LEMON JELLO CAKE

Steps:

• 1. CAKE: Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the first 6 ingredients together, low speed for about 30 seconds in incorprate then for about 2 minutes on a medium speed until well mixed. (Note: Use these ingredients in place of the ingredients listed on the cake mix box. Also use the entire can of crushed pineapple, including the juice.)
• 2. Pour into a greased Pyrex 9 x 13 pan. Bake for 40 minutes. While the cake is baking, prepare the Glaze by stiring together the powdered sugar, lemon juice and butter. The butter will not break down entirely, small lumps of butter is ok.
• 3. After removing the cake from the oven and while it is still very warm, poke holes all over is a fork. Then pour the glaze over the top. The warm cake will melt the little lumps of butter as the glaze soaks in to the cake. Refridgerate until well chilled. Serves 8 -12 people depending on their appetite. Around my house I am lucky if it serves 6.

LEMON ICE BOX CAKE

Steps:

• Beat the cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until soft. Add the cream, sugar, lemon zest and vanilla and beat until it just holds stiff peaks.
• Spread the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with 1/2 cup of the whipped cream. Arrange half of the cookies on top of the cream, fitting in as many as possible without overlapping. Spoon half of the remaining cream mixture on top and smooth evenly with an offset spatula. In spoonfuls spaced every 2 inches, dollop half of the lemon curd onto the cream and then use a butter knife to swirl the curd into the cream. Top with another layer of cookies, followed by the remaining cream. Dollop with the remaining lemon curd and swirl into the cream. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until the cookies have softened, at least 3 hours and up to 1 day.
• Garnish each serving with lemon zest when ready to eat.

JELL-O ICE BOX CAKE

Steps:

• Dilute the Jell-O with the boiling water. Stir until dissolved. Add the lemon juice. Let set in refrigerator until wobbly (about an hour) then whip.
• Mix graham cracker crumbs with melted margarine and spread on the bottom of a 13 X 9 inch pan. Set aside.
• When Jell-O is ready, with mixer on high speed, whip evaporated milk until fluffy. Whip in sugar and Jell-O. Add drained fruit and whip again.
• Pour into graham cracker crumb crust and sprinkle additional graham cracker crumbs on top if desired. Refrigerate until set about 6 hours or overnight. Cut into 16 pieces; about 100 calories per piece.