Broken Glass Torte is the kind of vintage dessert that earns attention before the first bite. Cubes of orange, lime and strawberry gelatin are suspended in a creamy filling over a graham-cracker crust, creating the stained-glass effect that gives the dessert its name.
The source specifically calls it a good Christmas dessert and even suggests adding lemon gelatin if you want more color. That makes the visual contrast part of the recipe’s identity—not an embellishment added later. The result is cool, creamy, colorful and unmistakably rooted in the era of molded and gelatin desserts.
Broken Glass Torte
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. orange Jell-O
- 1 pkg. lime Jell-O
- 1 pkg. strawberry Jell-O
- 1 env. Knox gelatine
- 1 c. hot pineapple juice
- 2 doz. graham crackers crust
- ½ c. melted butter crust
- ½ c. sugar crust
- 2 c. whipping cream whipped with 1½ c. sugar and 1 tsp. vanilla, or use 1 large Cool Whip
Instructions
- Reserve a few crumbs to sprinkle over top of dessert. Mix each package Jell-O with 1½ cups hot water. Chill until firm, then cut into cubes. Should chill overnight. Soften the Knox gelatine in ¼ cup cold water, then dissolve in hot pineapple juice. Cool, but not set. Fold the gelatin mixture into whipped cream or Cool Whip, then fold in the Jell-O cubes. Pour over graham cracker crust.
Notes
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