Easy Black Forest Trifle Recipes

BLACK FOREST TRIFLE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13-by-9-inch baking pan. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, salt and baking powder. Add the buttermilk, oil and vanilla. Stir until just combined. Add the coffee and mix well. Pour into the pan and bake until a toothpick comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
• Cool the cake completely. Crumble the cake into medium chunks, cover, and then set aside.
• For the pudding: In a large saucepan set over medium heat, combine the cocoa, sugar, cornstarch and salt, and mix well. Whisk in the milk. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon while the mixture comes to a low boil and thickens, 7 to 9 minutes. Reduce the heat to very low. Stir a couple tablespoons of the hot mixture into the egg yolks, then stir the egg yolks back into the hot mixture to temper. Stir constantly until the mixture thickens to the consistency of pudding, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla. Place plastic wrap directly on the surface of the pudding to prevent a skin from forming, and then cool.
• For the whipped cream: Using an electric mixer set on high speed, beat the cream, sugar and vanilla until stiff peaks form.
• Place half of the cake crumbles in the bottom of a trifle dish. Top with half of the pudding, then half of the cherries, and half of the whipped cream. Repeat the layering with the remaining cake, pudding, cherries and whipped cream. Save a few cherries or cake crumbs to garnish the top layer. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or up to 1 day.

BLACK FOREST TRIFLE

Steps:

• Put about half of the pound cake cubes into the bottom of a glass trifle bowl; top with 1 can cherry pie filling, half of the hot fudge, and 2 cups whipped topping. Repeat layers.
• Drizzle some of the hot fudge over the top layer of whipped topping. Dollop small amounts of the cherry pie filling decoratively over the whipped topping.
• Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

BLACK FOREST TRIFLE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Make and bake brownie mix as directed on box for 9-inch square pan, using water, oil and eggs. Cool completely in pan on cooling rack.
• Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix cherries and kirsch. Let stand at least 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• In medium microwavable bowl, microwave hot fudge topping uncovered on High about 1 minute, stirring once, until softened. Fold in 1 container whipped topping until blended.
• Cut brownies into 1 1/2-inch pieces. In 4-quart trifle bowl or glass serving bowl, layer half of the brownie pieces and 1 1/2 cups of the cherries with liquid. Spoon chocolate whipped topping mixture over cherries. Repeat with remaining brownie pieces, cherries with liquid and plain whipped topping. Cover; refrigerate until serving. Shave 1 oz bittersweet chocolate. Sprinkle over trifle. Store covered in refrigerator.

BLACK FOREST TRIFLE

Steps:

• Put the custard into a pan with the chocolate pieces. Gently heat, stirring, until the chocolate has melted into the custard. Cover with cling film and cool.
• Arrange the brownies in the base of a trifle bowl. Drain the jars of cherries, reserving the liquid, and scatter over the brownies. Drizzle over 100ml reserved liquid. Spoon the cooled chocolate custard over and chill while you make the topping.
• Lightly whip the cream with the crème fraîche and icing sugar until soft peaks form. Chill until ready to serve, then pile on top of the trifle and decorate with grated chocolate and fresh cherries, if you like.

EASY BLACK FOREST TRIFLE

Steps:

• Prepare the cake mix according to package directions. Cool ten minutes; remove from pan. Cut into 1-inch cubes.
• Prepare pudding mix according to package directions using the milk. Cover (laying plastic wrap directly on pudding so no "skin" forms and chill about 30 minutes.
• Place 1/2 of cake cubes in a 3-quart trifle bowl. Spoon 1/2 of cherries over cake. Spread 1/2 of pudding over cherries and top with 1 cups of the Cool Whip. Repeat layers.
• Garnish, if desired, with a sprinkle of cocoa powder.

BLACK FOREST TRIFLE

Steps:

• Prepare cake according to package and cool.
• Cut the cake into layers, then into pieces.
• Place them so that they cover the bottom and sides of a large bowl.
• Pour in cherry pie filling and cover with remaining cake.
• Sprinkle rum over the cake.
• Make pudding and pour over next.
• Cover with whipped cream, shaved chocolate, and fresh cherries if desired.

BLACK FOREST TRIFLE

Steps:

• slice the swiss roll and put a layer in the bottom of the trifle dish
• then take half of the tin of black cherry filling and spread over the first layer of swiss roll, then cover the cherry filling with another layer of swiss roll and if using pour the cherry brandy (or other alcohol if prefered) over the top until soaked in
• take the other half of the tin of cherry filling and blend in food processor until smooth, then make up jelly according to instructions and add rest of blended cherry filling to jelly, stir well to mix and then pour over swiss roll, put in fridge and leave to set.
• when jelly has set make up chocolate angel delight according instructions and pour over top of jelly, place back in fridge and leave to set for approx 10 mins
• meanwhile whisk fresh cream until thick and creamy and spoon this ontop of trifle when angel delight is set, then grate plain chocolate over top and serve
• for a quicker version of this trifle, save syrup from black cherry filling and add all the black cherries as at stage 2 then add second layer of swiss roll, mix remaining syrup with cherry brandy and pour over swiss roll until soaked in then add angel delight and cream etc.