My mom was asked to help cater a bridal shower so of course I volunteered my culinary services. My assignment was dessert, and VOILA! the Vanilla-Lemon Trifle with Fresh Berries was born!! I know this looks super complicated but its actually pretty easy!
You will need a few things though....
-A trifle bowl
-Round tin pans to bake the cakes in
-Strawberries and blueberries
-Yellow cake mix
-Cool whip
-Lemon instant pudding
First off, you will probably want to make the cakes first (since this probably takes the longest to do). Pour the batter into 2 circle tin pans and let the cakes cool (or bake them the night before so they are ready to go the next day). The same thing goes for the lemon pudding- just follow the directions on the box and have it ready to go!
You might also want to put the frozen Cool Whip in the fridge the night before to defrost and be all nice and whippy for when you need to use it!
So now you are ready to assemble! I like to have multiple layers so I cut my 2 cakes in half by taking them out of the pans and using a long knife to circle around the cakes and divide them into 2. You might also need to trim the cakes a bit depending on the size of your trifle bowl.
1. Put 1 of the cake halves into the bowl
2. Spread a layer of the lemon pudding around the cake-make sure you have enough (but not tooooo much) so that you can see the layer from the outside of the bowl.
3. Cut your strawberries length-wise into slices and place them along the border. Then you can just throw the rest of the slices in the middle to fill it out
4. Put a layer of Cool Whip (same as you did for the pudding)
5. Now you are going to repeat all of this except put blueberries for the next layer.
6. For the last layer, you will do strawberries and then put enough Cool Whip to cover the top of the bowl.
I like to decorate the top with a little flower made of strawberries and blueberries.
DIG IN!!
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