Lemon Ice-Box Cake I recipe

Name: Lemon Ice-Box Cake I
Ingredients: 1 cup white sugar; 2 lemons, juiced; 1 (3 ounce) package lemon flavored Jell-O®; 1 cup crushed pineapple, drained; 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk, chilled; 14 graham crackers, crushed; 0.5 cup white sugar; 0.5 cup melted butter; 0.5 cup graham cracker crumbs; 0.25 cup maraschino cherries, drained and chopped

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

To Prepare Crust: mix graham crackers, 1/2 cup sugar and melted butter and press into 9 x 13 inch pan.

Step 2

Mix lemon gelatin with 1 cup boiling water and let cool.

Step 3

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.

Step 4

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.