Make My Day Camp: Nutter Butter Trifle

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Nutter Butter Trifle

I made this trifle for my sis's birthday last weekend - the inspiration came from recipes for chocolate peanut butter lasagna and another recipe for Nutter Butter chocolate dessert, I thought combining the 2 would make a delish and pretty trifle...judging by the fact that there wasn't a spoonful left I'd say it was delish - and pretty too haha!

Ingredients:

1 family size package of nutter butter cookies, reserve 3 or 4 for garnish
1 (8 oz) block cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup confections sugar
1 t. vanilla
1 carton Cool Whip
1 small box chocolate pudding
1 small box vanilla pudding
3 cups milk, divided
1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
mini Reese's peanut butter cups
reese's pieces

Layers:

Beat cream cheese with powdered sugar, and vanilla. Fold in 1/2 carton of Cool Whip.

Mix 1 small box of instant chocolate pudding with 1 1/2 cups milk

Mix 1 small box of instant vanilla pudding with 1 1/2 cups milk

Put a spoonful of smooth peanut butter in a micro-safe bowl and heat on high for a few seconds until it melts and is pourable, let cool a little bit so it doesn't melt the layers

Chop mini Reeses peanut butter cups into bite sized pieces.

To assemble the trifle:

Spread a spoonful of pudding (either flavor) in the bottom of a glass trifle bowl. Put down a layer of nutter butter cookies. Add a layer of chocolate pudding, then a layer of the cream cheese mixture. Drizzle a little melted peanut butter and add a few chopped Reese's. Top with a layer of vanilla pudding and continue adding the layers (cookies, chocolate pudding, cream cheese, drizzled pb and Reese's) until all the ingredients are used up or the trifle bowl is full, whichever comes first. Finish the top of the trifle with the rest of the Cool Whip; add chopped nutter butter cookies and chopped Reese's, and drizzle with melted peanut butter.

It's ok to make this ahead of time, it gives the cookies chance to soften a bit and everything to meld together.