Mini Patriotic Trifles with Berries
These mini patriotic trifles are so fun to serve during summer parties! Made with instant vanilla pudding, blueberries, strawberries, and angel food cake, this is such an easy July 4th dessert.
Ingredients
- 2 lb Strawberries quartered (with ½ cup reserved for garnish)
- ½ cups White sugar
- 4 cups Blueberries (with ½ cup reserved for garnish)
- 6.8 oz Instant vanilla pudding 2 packages of 3.4 ounces
- 4 cups Milk
- 16 oz Angel food cake one whole cake; cubed
- 16 oz Cool Whip two of the 8 ounce containers
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add the quartered strawberries and cover with the 2 tablespoons of sugar to macerate the strawberries and create a bit of strawberry juice. Stir well to coat the strawberries in the sugar. Set aside for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine the instant pudding mix and the milk. Stir until the pudding is smooth. Fold 8 ounces of Cool Whip into the pudding. Put mixture in the refrigerator and allow it to chill for 20-30 minutes.
- In the bottom of each glass, add 3-4 cake cubes.
- Strain the strawberry juice - which should now be at the bottom of the bowl of strawberries and pour a bit of it over the cake cubes.
- With a large spoon, carefully drop a spoonful of pudding mixture over the layer of cake cubes.
- Add in a spoonful of quartered strawberries.
- Add in a spoonful of blueberries.
- Repeat steps #3-7 until you end with the fruit on top. The top layer of fruit should be near the top of the glass. (You may not have enough strawberry juice to do that step a second time._
- Top with a large spoonful of Cool Whip (from the second Cool Whip container.)
- Garnish with the reserved fresh strawberries and blueberries.
- Keep trifle glasses in the refrigerator until ready to serve - chilling for at least three hours and up until one day.
Notes
*If your trifle glasses are extra tall and slender, you might need to divide cake cubes, pudding, and fruit into three layers each rather than the two layers described here.
Nutrition
Serving: 1servingCalories: 346kcalCarbohydrates: 71gProtein: 7gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.5gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 737mgPotassium: 371mgFiber: 3gSugar: 43gVitamin A: 234IUVitamin C: 49mgCalcium: 188mgIron: 1mg
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