Creepy Peepers Halloween Jell-O
These Creepy Peeper Halloween Jell-o cups are just creepy enough to be cool…even for little kiddos!
So, you know I have boys, right? I’m outnumbered 3 to 1, in fact. That means no princess costumes, no glittery face paint, no plastic jewelry, no fairy wings, no tutus, nothing.
It has been happening slowly over the past 5 years, but I have started to think like a boy. I get excited when I see farm equipment. I slow down the car a little as I pass excavators digging. I even know what an excavator is and how it is different than a bulldozer. It’s a sad thing.
So I made you creepy Halloween Jell-O.
I apologize.
PLEASE
SEND
PINK.
Layering eyeballs and Jello-O (before and after adding the reserved liquid)
*Use a well-greased, rimmed baking sheet to make the white Jell-O eyes if you don’t have a jelly bean mold (Who even does? I’m SO weird.)
You could also make this in a 9×13 dish instead of cups. I would still recommend reserving 1 cup of the Jell-O to pour over the eyes after you add them to the dish that way it won’t look like all of your eyes have sunk to the bottom. Or floated to the top. Or whatever.
Creepy Peepers Halloween Jello Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 6 oz packages of green Jell-O, the large boxes
- 2 envelopes Knox unflavored gelatin, 4 envelopes in a box
- 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
- Water, various portions and temperatures
- Food coloring pen
- Pam, or other vegetable oil spray
Instructions
- Bring 2½ cups water to a boil, pour over green Jell-O and stir 3 minutes until dissolved.
- Reserve 1 cup of this green Jell-O, set aside. DO NOT REFRIGERATE.
- Pour remaining Jell-O into a greased 9x13 dish and refrigerate.
- Bring 1 cup of water to a boil on your stovetop. Stir in sweetened condensed milk; stir to incorporate.
- In a small bowl with 1 cup of cold water sprinkle in 2 packages of Knox unflavored gelatin. Let stand (about 1 minute) to “bloom.” Add ½ cup boiling water. Pour the unflavored gelatin mixture into the milk mixture. Stir to combine.
- Pour into jelly bean mold, refrigerate.*
- At this point you have a pan of green Jell-O and a pan of white Jell-O in the refrigerator and a cup of Jell-O on the countertop. You will need to go find something to do for at least an hour, probably closer to 2 hours.
- When firm to the touch cut green Jell-O into small pieces. Pop out white eyeballs or use a small circle cutter (cake decorating tip, bottle cap of vanilla, etc.) to cut out white eyes. Add black pupils with a food coloring pen.
- Layer green Jell-O and eyeballs into small glasses.
- Remember that cup of Jell-O on the countertop? Reheat in the microwave for 30 seconds if necessary and pour over the cups.
- Return to the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Gross out your friends.
82 Comments on “Creepy Peepers Halloween Jell-O”
Being a mum of two boys (and loads of little boys in the neighbourhood) these are going to be a great hit for Halloween tomorrow. How many kids cups does this recipe make please?
making these for work… I have the mold and never used it. My clients will love it! Thanks!
How can you make them dairy free
Great question but I’m not sure how to make the white eyes without the sweetened condensed milk.
LOL. Guess I am weird too..cause I also have a jello jelly bean mold!!!! And I am also devoid of female persons in my household other than myself..These look like so much fun
I love these.
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Finally! A use for my Jello jelly bean mold! See, you're not the only one! 🙂 Tnx- fun recipe!
Such an awesome dessert! I included it in my Halloween Recipes post…love it!
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I adore these! Like others, I found myself laughing as I read this post. Been inundated with the most awesome Halloween food ideas (and not a little jealous of the creativity of others!) lately (by choice), and find this to be one of the simplest gelatin-related recipes–and one that may just top the list! The humor, though…that's priceless. 🙂
Awwww that's cute. Nice touch on the green jello. I will definitely use this for next year's Halloween. Thanks for sharing.
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Made these last weekend – ended up adding 4 packets of knox gelatin (instead of the 2 in the recipe) – substituted cream of coconut for the water in the eyeball part. Delicious! We all LOVED it!!
Thanks for the inspiration!!!
I am making these for my son's school party….thanks for the idea :0
Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts! You can see it here https://funfamilycrafts.com/creepy-peepers-jell-o/
If you have other kid friendly crafts, I'd love it if you would submit them 🙂 If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above.
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Love it! Please post this, and anything else you may have,in my link party at https://diycraftstomake.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Peggy
That is so creepy cool!
I know what you mean about the boy thing. I almost yelled out Train! when I was driving by myself. Oh how my life has changed (although I'm lucky to have a pink one as well)!
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What an entertaining writer you are — fun idea !
I LOVE these! I am soooooo making these for our Halloween party next week!!
I laughed at your "send pink" wish I could. lol
And I am a Jello-fanatic…and I do have the Jello-beans molds, I have ALL the jiggler molds…should we start a support group??
Thanks for sharing this great idea!
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Haha!! These look great! Newest follower. Stopping by from Everything Under the Moon. I am participating in The Letter 4 Halloween Party with you… YAY!!! Can't wait to see your post 🙂
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Great idea! I have that mold from ages ago – it was an Easter thing, but this is way cooler! (spoken by the lone female in our house – including the pets!)
These are so cool! Have you seen the jello brain mold? We ordered one… I know how weird is that? But seriously I can completely understand where you are coming from as I am a mom to 3 teen boys and they still like this kinda stuff. I even get requests for finger food (shortbread cookies shaped like fingers complete with painted nails and age spots) when they are supposed to take something in. Pink? What is that? A type of scissors? Like pinking shears? Ha Ha! Great recipe and thank you for sharing it!
I'll send you some pink! no boys here (except for my hubby lol)
These are so fun!
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Have a great weekend!
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This is great! I'm always on the search for cool new ideas for Halloween. This one is a winner. Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂
I have girls…two to be exact….so it's all pink over here.
(And if you want some…I can totally send you LOTS of pink)
But those creepy jello cups are fabulous…as in if I were boy disgusting, icky, yucky type of fabulous!
But since I'm a girl….ewwwww gross 🙂
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oh my goodness, so spooky and so much fun! LOVE them!
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This post is so fetish-worthy, I've been inspired to include it in my Friday Food Fetish blog. If you have any objections, please let me know
Hahaha, love it! I always think that eyeballs are the perfect object to creep out your Halloween food with…what is it about eyeballs that make them so gross? Great jello, Katrina! And don't worry…I'm sure you'll find time to feel girly again. 😀
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That Jell-o mold is awesome, Katrina! I want one. But, I guess it wouldn't be too practical for me since I don't like Jell-o. I'm weird, I know. I think it's a texture thing. Anyways, this is fabulously creepy and perfect for Halloween. Sending some pink your way. 😉
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Woman, these are freakin' amazing!! I love your creative mind!!
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This is the coolest, easierst Halloween recipe! Genius!
Despite the floating monster eyeballs, I find these really awesome and I'm sure, super tasty as well.
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Woah! That's totally awesomely gross! My boys will love it! thanks!
WOW! My 4 year old would LOVE this! LOL… Just too bad, the locals here aren't big about Halloween. :((