4th of July Recipe: JELL-O Firecrackers

JELL-O Firecrackers to celebrate Fourth of July.

Ingredients:

1-1/3 cups boiling water, divided

1 pkg.  (3 oz.) JELL-O Berry Blue Flavor Gelatin

1 pkg.  (3 oz.) JELL-O Cherry Flavor Gelatin

1 env.  KNOX Unflavored Gelatine

1 cup  milk, divided

3 Tbsp.  sugar

½ tsp.  vanilla

20  maraschino cherries with stems, well drained, patted dry

Directions:

Add 2/3 cup boiling water to berry gelatin mix in small bowl; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Repeat with cherry gelatin mix. Cool.

Meanwhile, sprinkle unflavored gelatine over 1/4 cup milk in medium bowl; let stand 5 min. Bring remaining milk to boil in saucepan. Remove from heat; stir in sugar and vanilla. Add to plain gelatine mixture; stir until gelatine is completely dissolved. Cool 10 min.

Spoon berry gelatin into 20 (1-oz.) plastic shot glasses sprayed lightly with cooking spray, adding about 2 tsp. to each. Refrigerate 15 min. or until set but not firm.

Top with unflavored gelatine mixture, adding about 2 tsp. to each cup. Refrigerate 10 min. Insert cherry, stem end up, into white gelatine layer in each cup. Refrigerate 2 min.

Cover with cherry gelatin, adding about 2 tsp. to each cup. Refrigerate 2 hours or until firm. Remove from cups before serving.