Chocolate Trifle Recipe

This chocolate trifle is usually known as black forest trifle which is prepared mainly with chocolate pudding and cherries. It’s one of a tempting dessert for special occasions and can be decorated with edible flowers or chocolate curls.

Ingredients:

2 lb marble cake (cut into slices)
1 oz instant chocolate pudding mix
2 cup skim milk
2 cup frozen pitted cherries
2 drops red food coloring
2 cup whipped cream

Preparation:

1. At first prepare pudding for the trifle for that you need to mix pudding mix in milk and chill in fridge to set for at least 30 min.
2. Add red food color to cherries and mix well.
3. Now take a serving bowl and make layer of marble cake slices, cover the cake with cherries and then spread prepared chocolate pudding mixture. Repeat this pattern of layer again and in the end top with whipped cream and few cherries. Keep the bowl in fridge to chill.

Trifle Strawberry Recipe

This trifle strawberry is prepared with vanilla custard and pound cake with topping of whipped cream hence looks tempting. You may also add strawberry pudding mix instead of vanilla custard and wafers which also tastes good.

Ingredients:

4 cup milk
2-3 tbsp vanilla custard powder
4 tbsp sugar
1 cup strawberries (sliced)
2 cup heavy cream
½ cup confectioners’ sugar
12 oz prepared pound cake (cubed)

Preparation:

1. Boil milk in a sauce pan and leaving ¼ cup cold milk in a cup.
2. Add sugar and let it cook with milk for 5 min.
3. Dissolve custard powder in the reserved milk and then slowly add it to the boiled milk and stir continuously while adding so that lumps of custard would not form and it mixes well in the milk.
4. When the custard gets thick remove the pan from heat and allows it to cool.
5. Meanwhile beat heavy cream with confectioners’ sugar until stiff peaks are formed.
6. Now take the serving glass bowl, spread few pieces of pound cake at the bottom, put slices of strawberries at the side walls of bowl and pour prepared custard over the cake layer. Again make layer of pound cake and strawberries in similar fashion and pour whipped cream on over the cake and then place in fridge to chill for at least an hour.
7. Decorate the delicious trifle strawberry with strawberry slices and edible flowers.