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Celebrate the 4th of July with this delicious, totally festive, and easy patriotic Jello pie! 3 layers of red, white, and blue inside a store-bought prepared graham cracker crust. Top with additional Cool Whip and fresh fruit for a show stopper dessert at your own 4th of July picnic.
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4th of July Patriotic Jello Pie

Celebrate the 4th of July with this delicious, totally festive, and easy patriotic Jello pie! 3 layers of red, white, and blue inside a store-bought prepared graham cracker crust. Top with additional Cool Whip and fresh fruit for a show stopper dessert at your own 4th of July picnic.
Servings 8 people
Author Jessica

Ingredients

  • 1½ cups boiling water divided
  • 1 cup ice cubes divided
  • 1 box (3 oz) berry blue Jell-O
  • 1 box (3 oz) cherry Jell-O
  • 1 cup Cool Whip thawed
  • 1 (6 oz) ready-to-use graham cracker crumb crust or shortbread crust
  • fresh blueberries and chopped strawberries for garnish

Instructions

blue jello layer

  • In a bowl, add the blue jello and 3/4 cup boiling water. Stir together with a whisk until dissolved. Add 1/2 cup of ice cubes and stir until ice cubes are melted.
  • Pour blue jello into the prepared graham cracker crust.
  • Refrigerate for 15 minutes, or until it is soft set.

red jello layer

  • In a bowl, add the red jello and 3/4 cup boiling water. Stir together until dissolved. Add 1/2 cup ice cubes and stir together until ice cubes are melted.
  • Let sit for 10-15 minutes at room temperature, or until it's thickened but not set.

assemble the pie/refrigerate

  • Take pie out of the fridge and spread 1 cup Cool Whip on top of blue jello layer.
  • Spread the red jello (make sure it's thickened but not set) evenly over the Cool Whip layer.
  • Cover and refrigerate pie at least 8 hours (or overnight preferred).
  • When ready to serve dollop each slice with Cool Whip and fresh berries, or use a piping bag and pipe the remaining Cool Whip around the edges of pie, or you can spread the remaining cool whip on top of the pie as a 4th layer and garnish with fresh red and blue berries (strawberries and blueberres).

Notes

You only use 1 cup of the Cool Whip for the pie. Save the rest for when you serve it; either dollop some onto each slice, or put it in a piping bag and pipe it on the pie. Garnish with the fresh fruit.
Make sure that the Cool Whip is completely thawed and soft before spreading it on the blue Jello. It is very difficult to spread if it's half frozen still.