Cinnamon Red-Hot Candy Jello - A Family Tradition

One Christmas tradition 

we can't live without at our house is

Red-Hot Candy Jello!

If I don't make it for our Christmas dinner

{and thanksgiving!}, disappointment abounds.

It probably sounds like a strange recipe

if you've never heard of it before,

but - trust me - it's so delish.

Here's the drill . . .

Cinnamon Red-Hot Candy Jello

• 1 - 5 oz pkg. cherry Jello
• 1/2 cup cinnamon Red-Hot candy
• 1 - 20 oz. can crushed pineapple
• 2 cups apples peeled & chopped

In a small saucepan, heat red-hot candy in a 1/2 cup of water. Meanwhile, in a separate pan, dissolve Jello in 1 1/2 cups hot water.  

Using a strainer, pour water with dissolved red-hot candy into the pan with dissolved Jello. {TIP: the red-hot candy will not dissolve entirely. You just want the outer-candy flavoring to melt off. That's why you strain the liquid.}

After straining the liquid out, wipe the remaining candy {while it is still warm} out of the saucepan with a paper towel & throw away.

This is much easier than cleaning it up after it hardens again!

In a 9x13 pan, add the Jello mixture to the chopped apples & the can of crushed pineapple. {Drain some of the liquid off the pineapple before adding it in.} TIP: only canned pineapple will work - Jello will not set up if you use fresh.

Refrigerate & serve with fresh whipped cream.