Around my house we love a good trifle. Christmas is no exception! Not to mention the perfect excuse for a good dessert. Typically we make a yummy brownie trifle, but this year I wanted to try something new and little more festive! So I came up with the
Candy Cane Trifle!
Here’s the cinch on the recipe…
Ingredients
Red Velvet cake mix
~50 mini candy canes
1 package candy cane Hershey Kisses
3 small boxes of cheesecake Jello pudding
1 tsp vanilla extract
16 oz Cool Whip
4 cups of milk
4 oz cream cheese (not shown)
The cake:
Mix the Red Velvet cake mix according to the box directions.
Line a 9×13″ cake pan with aluminum foil and spray generously with cooking spray.
Pour in the cake mix and spread evenly throughout the pan.
Unwrap at least half of the candy cane Hershey Kisses and drop them on top of the cake mix.
Bake the cake according to the box directions.
Allow to cool completely.
When you cut into the cake, your Hershey Kisses will have dropped to the bottom.
The pudding:
Add the 3 boxes of cheesecake Jello to 4 cups of cold milk in a large bowl. Whisk for two minutes then set aside for pudding to thicken (a couple of minutes). Beat in cream cheese and vanilla extract until there are no lumps. Gently fold in 2/3 of the Cool Whip mixing completely.
Candy canes:
Unwrap the mini candy canes and chop them up in a food processor or blender. You want a semi-fine texture. No big chunks! We don’t want any cracked teeth when people bite into the trifle!
Now its time to put together the trifle!
Cut up (or crumble – I like to just break it up with my hands!) 1/3 of the cake into the bottom of a trifle bowl (or regular bowl – use what you have!).
Top the cake with approximately 1/3-1/2 of the pudding mixture.
On top of the pudding, sprinkle 1/3-1/2 of the chopped candy canes.
Repeat the process again!
Decorate the top of your trifle as you like with any
leftover candy canes and/or candy cane Hershey kisses.
Note: You may want to wait to decorate immediately prior to presenting your trifle to your family because the candy canes and Kisses may bleed a bit.
Be sure you take a moment to admire your creation before it get devoured! 🙂
Yummy and festive, too!
You can’t beat that. 😉
Also, you can use any leftover ingredients to make a single layer of the trifle and send it to your coworkers (or your husband’s!). They’ll love you for it!
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I made this for Christmas and There was NOTHING left. It was delicious and everyone Loved it. It is also easy to make. Thanks for a new Holiday Tradition!
Just made this for tonight’s Christmas party. Was worried because I didn’t have any vanilla extract but I made it without. It looks great and I tried some and it’s SOOOO GOOD! Thank you for posting this.
I made this this afternoon. This was so easy to make. I love to make Trifles. It is my “thing” during the holidays. Usually I make a Gingerbread or a Chocolate one… This one looked so yummy and festive I had to try it. So glad I did. This is the prettiest one I have ever made. Thanks for the recipe!!
I couldn’t find cheesecake pudding, do you think vanilla will work okay?
Oh yes, Sarah, vanilla should work just fine! 🙂
I can’t wait to make this! I am obsessed with candy cane kisses, thanks to my sister, so I know that at least we will both love this, who cares if other family doesn’t haha!
This is superb! My sister will love it. Thanks for sharing.
It’s Christmas Eve and I sent Hubby out to the store to buy all the ingredients I need to make this!! He couldnt’ find mini candy canes, so I’ll have to make do with standard sized one! The cake is baking now and smells delish! Can’t wait to put it all together and see how pretty it is in person! Thanks for the wonderful recipe and fantastic photos!
Merry Christmas from our house to yours!
Dee
You will only add ~2/3 of the Cool Whip to the pudding, Crystal. You can add it all at once! Just fold it in gently. Be sure you don’t decorate the top of the trifle until just before serving, too! The candy canes will start to melt after a while. 🙂
In the process of making this – do you use the entire 16 oz of whip cream or just 2/3????? Or do I just fold in 2/3 at a time?? HELP!! LOL!!
This would be a great addition to our dessert table on Christmas Eve. Thank you so much for sharing!
Yum! This looks like a great recipe to take for Christmas dinner. yum yum!
Not only does it sound and look yum, it’s so pretty!! Thanks for sharing:D
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This looks really yummy! I can’t wait to try it.
Pinning on pinterest. 🙂
Cheers,
Tracy Screaming Sardine
This looks amazing Michele! SO festive and yummy. I’ve never made a trifle but pinning this to try!
Not only does this look delicious, it is too pretty to eat! Beautiful job!! I saw that picture of the layers on TT&J and said out loud, “whhhaaaaaat?!” Ha. Pinned. 🙂
Looks really yummy!
This looks fabulous! Yum!
This looks too sweet to taste:) We will add this to our Candy Cane post!
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looks perfectly deelish and festive!
I love the candy cane hearts on top, how pretty! Looks delicious. 🙂
Every time I hear triffle I think of the horrible one my grandma made with jello and fruit chunks, so gross. This, this I could eat!
that looks So good. I just tried those kisses today and I feel in love. I’d love it if you would add them to my What We Wore and Made link party over at http://raegunwear.blogspot.com/search/label/WWWMW
That looks heavenly! YUMMMMMM!
Thanks for sharing.
Gen
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Thanks for this recipe, it looks amazing! Too bad we can’t buy hersheys kisses here in Australia!
Oh wow. The word that comes to mind is yum and that’s what everyone else wrote! How about delectable? Great photos too!
Omg, this looks so yum! I can’t wait to make it for my family!
Wow Michele – that trifle is gorgeous!! I love it! It’s so really yummy too!
Oh my! That looks so yummy!! 🙂 I’m definitely trying this!! 🙂