Comments on: Simple Strawberry Pie Recipe with Jello and Cool Whip

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:00:10 +0000

Don’t fold the strawberries into the filling, they will prevent your pie from setting properly. I grew up eating these pies and made them from another recipe several years ago and they came out perfect. These were runny and inedible without freezing.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:59:57 +0000

Yes you can use frozen strawberries. I replaced the water and ice cubes with 2 cups frozen solid cut up strawberries. Mixed them into the prepared hot strawberry jello mix and folded into the thawed cool whip. Turned out perfect! The strawberries were not muchy and gave tons more flavor. I had strawberries that I froze and they had NO added sugar – just strawberries.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 30 May 2025 16:39:42 +0000

This sounds great. Is there anyway I can incorporate cream cheese into this pie? do you think adding an 8 oz block of softened cream cheese would work and set up properly ? or would I need to add another box of jello? trying to re create a cream cheese strawberry jello pie I had but can’t find a recipe. this is very close otherwise
thanks!

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:18:35 +0000

I used the directions as followed but with cherry jello and fresh cherries. I added in some pudding to help make it so it wouldn’t be runny.
It’s in the fridge now so hopefully it will turn out, I used cheesecake pudding.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Sat, 03 May 2025 15:02:06 +0000

My pie didn’t firm up. It is runny. I used gelatin.