A creamy sauce with a light cheese flavor is baked with scalloped potatoes and ham. The dish is very simple and inexpensive. This recipe has never failed to please anyone.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 4 hrs 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 40 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 brain |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 brain-shaped gelatin mold
- 4 (3 ounce) packages peach flavored Jell-O® mix
- 3 cups boiling water
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
- 1 ½ cups peach schnapps
- 4 drops blue food coloring
- 2 drops red food coloring
- 2 teaspoons water
Instructions
- Lightly grease a brain-shaped gelatin mold.
- Stir peach gelatin mix with 3 cups boiling water in a bowl until gelatin is dissolved. Allow to cool to room temperature, about 20 minutes. Mix in evaporated milk and peach schnapps; pour into the prepared mold. Refrigerate until set, 4 to 6 hours.
- Dip the mold in warm water to loosen; don’t let water enter the top of the mold. Invert the mold onto a serving platter and lift to release the brain.
- Mix blue and red food coloring in a small bowl with 2 teaspoons water. Use a small, clean paintbrush to paint coloring into the grooves of the brain. Place the brain into the refrigerator until color sets. Serve cold.
Reviews
Used starburst all pink jello instead. And did half a cup each of vodka, cointreau and Chambord. Delicious!
So cool and easy.. I made separate food coloring mixtures and added blue then red into the grooves.
Used vodka instead of schnapps. Only criticism is that it’s almost too real looking!
I like big brains and I cannot lie! This turned out perfectly. Since it was for an office event, I subbed peach nectar for the schnapps and it had a wonderful peaches and cream flavor. I will definitely only use this recipe for “brains” in the future. If the situation allows, I will use the alcohol instead of the nectar.
I changed mine up just a bit. I used a cup of peach vodka, instead of the peach schnapps. I also added mostly blue food coloring with a few drops of red to get the grayish look. I did not have a paint brush, so I used a Q-tip. I think it came out pretty good for my first attempt.
Always a hit at Halloween parties!
This was definitely the hit for our adult party! I substituted the peach schnapps with fireball whiskey for a cinnamon taste and I substituted the peach jello with cherry jello. The perfect spooky treat at your next Halloween party, “Brain on fire!”
I made this brain for my work Halloween party and it was a big hit! It looked just real enough, wiggled the right amount and tasted great! I used orange Jello and food colored it to the grossest color possible. Simple recipe with a big presentation impact!
This recipe is excellent as is, however to make it really realistic I added drops of red and blue color to the main mix until it looked gray. I not only painted it (using a q-tip) with the food color mixture afterward, but also drizzled grenadine on top to look like blood. Served on a cutting board with a small cleaver. Unfortunately it was barely touched, since it looked *too* real. The few people who dared said it was delicious though. I also made a “pig aorta” in a shot glass using the same method – grossed out a lot of folks on social media! (see in photos above) You could use this recipe for all kinds of different molds – I’m thinking severed fingers.
I made several changes: 1) used whipped cream vodka in place of schnapps, 2) used a 5 oz can of evap. milk, juice from a small container of peach chunks, and topped up to 1 1/2 cups with half and half, and 3) added the peach chunks to the gelatin. I had so much fun making this that I wouldn’t really care if it didn’t taste that good, but it does! A LOT of sugar, but that goes with the holiday!
Big hit but makes a LOT of jello shooter. Worth making even though it wasn’t finished. Make sure you have lots of plastic shooter glasses to spoon it into. I tinted the peach jello with a couple drops of blue food colouring to tone the peach colour down. Don’t use too much blue in the tint mix when painting the finishing touches on.
We substituted strawberry jello instead of peach, and used a full pint of peach schnapps. It was fully gelled in approximately 5 hours, and tasted fantastic!
Sliced the brain with a big chef knife for effect. Tasted great!
Worked like a charm! I made a non-alcoholic version of this, substituting water for the alcohol. We used it for a school haunted house – kids thought this was awesome! Set up really well and looked gross on the table.
so easy to make and sooo good!
The finishing result was awesome, the brain was sturdy and looked really good! And it tasted good too, I used peach jello and it tasted like peaches and cream with the evaporated milk. I would like to play around with this recipe and try out new and gory things in the future!
This was a huge win at my adult halloween party! Creepy and cool. I walked around the party with the brain on a silver platter and served slices to my party-goers. It wasn’t sticky or slimy so you could use your fingers. Unlike a lot of jello shots, this actually tasted great.
Made this for our party last night…huge hit…everyone loved it! Cool gross factor (served it with a small ice cream scoop) but tasted yummy…should have made two of them. Only thing I changed, I put 1 cup of schnapps and 1/2 cup peach flavored vodka for alittle bit more punch.