Showing posts with label trifle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trifle. Show all posts

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Berry Trifle

Here's a quick, easy, yummy, low calorie dessert that's perfect for any patriotic holidays or summer party - it's a weight watchers recipe that I found here and it's SO good. I make this quite often and everyone loves it. I'm taking this trifle to my sisters for her Memorial Day party along with mini cherry and blueberry pies (I haven't made them yet, will post when I do!). Here is the original recipe, followed by a couple of my notes.



RED, WHITE, AND BLUEBERRY TRIFLE
14 (1cup) servings, 169 calories per serving

ingredients:
- 10 oz angel food cake, cut into 1-inch cubes
-2 pints strawberries, sliced
- 2 pints blueberries

for the cream filling:
-6 tablespoons fat-free sweetened condensed milk
-1 1/2 cups cold water
1 package sugar-free white chocolate instant pudding mix
-12 oz fat free frozen whipped topping, thawed

directions:
Whisk the condensed milk and water in a bowl. Whisk in the pudding mix for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft set; fold in the whipped topping.

Arrange half of the cake in the bottom of a 14 cup trifle dish. Sprinkle evenly with a layer of blueberries. Spread half of the cream mixture over the blueberries and gently spread. Top with a layer of strawberries. Layer the remaining cake cubes on top of the strawberries, then add more blueberries and top with the remaining cream mixture. Finish with the remaining strawberries and blueberries, arranging them in a pretty pattern. Cover and refrigerate at least one hour.

*notes: I sometimes use low-fat milk instead of the condensed milk/water mixture; and you can change the pudding flavor to whatever you like. Sometimes I get in too big of a hurry and don't cut the angel food cake into small enough bites, you do want them fairly small. I save out a little whipped topping and spread it on the top before adding the top layer of berries in a pattern. One more thing - I put down a little of the pudding first then layer with cake and berries (and sometimes I add raspberries).  Enjoy!

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Pumpkin Gingersnap Trifle

My niece Macey doesn't really like cake so for her birthday I made her pumpkin gingersnap trifle in little individual cup servings - turned out cute, practical(transportable), and yummy.


I made pumpkin mousse (see below),  let it set up in the fridge for an hour, then scooped out about 2 tablespoons into 9 oz clear plastic cups. Add some chopped up gingersnap cookies, top with another 2 tablespoons of mousse and 1 tablespoon of cool whip, finish with some cookie crumbs sprinkled on top.




To transport them to her birthday party I put the filled cups in a muffin tray overlapping the edges of the cups a little bit to fit them all in. Worked great, didn't spill or tip over, and the individual portions made for pretty servings.

To make the mousse:

2 packages instant vanilla pudding
3 cups milk
1 can pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 cup cool whip or whipped cream

Whisk the milk and pudding together in a large bowl for a couple of minutes until dissolved and starting to thicken. Add the pumpkin and spice, stir well to combine. Fold in the cool whip. Cover and refrigerate for an hour.