This Cranberry Cheesecake Trifle is a semi-homemade dessert that’s merely delicious! With a few store-bought substances, this Simple Trifle Recipe is a breeze to arrange!
Simple Christmas Desserts are perfect for the busy vacation season and once they look and style nearly as good as this Fruit Trifle, you’ll need to make it a vacation custom.
Why You Should Make
- Final week, I introduced this elegant, festive Cranberry Cheesecake Trifle to a vacation luncheon with some girlfriends. It obtained rave critiques!
- A trifle makes a lovely presentation with the layers showcased in a particular glass serving dish.
- This dessert recipe is ideal for Christmas entertaining. It’s elegant and scrumptious!!
My mates are wonderful style testers in terms of recipes my household may snub. Cranberries are a lot decrease on the recognition scale with my crew in comparison with chocolate. MUCH decrease. Like on the backside. Sigh. However I used to be within the temper for cranberries and, fortunately, this trifle was a success!
Ingredient Notes
There are 3 layers that repeat when assembling this vacation trifle, pound cake cubes, cranberry sauce, and cheesecake filling. Every of the three elements is dispersed throughout the underside of the dish, then repeated once more, making six complete layers.
- Kitchen Staples – Sugar, Actual Vanilla Extract
- Frozen Pound Cake – I used 1½ of two Sara Lee pound truffles, defrosted
- Bitter Cream – Use common, not low fats for the very best taste and texture
- Orange Extract and Orange Zest – Performs effectively with the cranberry taste. Zest your individual oranges. The stuff in jars shouldn’t be almost as tasty!
- Heavy Cream – 36% Butterfat (simply search for “heavy whipping cream” on the label)
- Entire Berry Cranberry Sauce – 2 cans. Don’t purchase jellied cranberry sauce.
- Grand Marnier – An orange liqueur. You may as well use Cointreau or Triple Sec. Alcohol is a taste enhancer, however if you happen to can’t have alcohol, you may substitute with an equal quantity of orange juice.
- Contemporary Cranberries and Contemporary Mint – These make a lovely crimson and inexperienced vacation garnish if serving this for firm or the vacations.
Recipe Suggestions
- The standard English trifle consists of sponge cake (like ladyfingers), fruit or jam, a little bit of sherry to soak the cake, and custard. Whipped cream is one other in style addition.
- This model is ideal for Thanksgiving and Christmas when cranberries are on the menu to go together with your vacation turkey.
- Utilizing frozen pound truffles and cans of entire berry cranberry sauce to assist streamline the method. Shortcuts are nice for the vacations!
- As talked about above, alcohol is a taste enhancer so except you keep away from it, Grand Marnier is a terrific addition to this trifle.
- PRO-Tip: For probably the most enticing presentation, you don’t need to smear up the within of the trifle bowl. Take care when spooning on the cranberry sauce and spreading the cheesecake filling.
- PRO-Tip: Making this the day earlier than serving permits the cake to soak up a few of the cranberry juices, thus giving the cake a lovely coloration.
Ceaselessly Requested Questions
Cranberries had been available within the 1500s within the US and it’s thought the Pilgrims would have served them for Thanksgiving. They’re solely one in every of three fruits that’s native to America. The opposite two are Harmony grapes and blueberries.
The Pilgrims wouldn’t have eaten cranberry sauce when celebrating the primary Thanksgiving however they did make a dish with cranberries and dried meat that might have been a part of their menu.
Trifles are initially from England and the basic substances embrace spongecake, sherry, jam, custard, and whipped cream. Garnishes might be candied fruit, recent fruit, nuts, or chocolate shavings.
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Elements
- 2 10.75 ounce frozen pound truffles (I used 1½ out of two Sara Lee pound truffles), defrosted
Cheesecake Filling:
- 2 packages cream cheese (8 ounces every), at room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup bitter cream
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon orange extract
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Cranberry Sauce Layer:
- 2 cans entire berry cranberry sauce (14 ounces every)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
- 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier
- Contemporary cranberries and mint to garnish, optionally available
Directions
- Minimize the truffles into bite-sized cubes. Put aside.
- In a big bowl, cream collectively cream cheese and powdered sugar till easy; add bitter cream, vanilla, and orange extracts. Put aside.
- In a medium bowl, whip the cream, vanilla, and sugar to agency peaks. Fold whipped cream into the cream cheese combination. Put aside.
- Mix the cranberry sauce, sugar, orange zest, and Grand Marnier.
- Layer in a big glass trifle bowl, beginning with a single layer of cake, then half the cranberry sauce, adopted by half of the cheesecake filling. Repeat, ending with the filling.
- Use an offset spatula to unfold the cheesecake filling.
- Cowl with plastic wrap and chill effectively earlier than serving (in a single day is finest).
- Garnish as desired. I used mint sprigs and recent cranberries.
Notes
Letting the trifle chill in a single day helps the flavors meld and a few of the juices soak into the pound cake cubes.
Diet Info:
Yield:
16
Serving Dimension:
1
Quantity Per Serving:
Energy: 299Whole Fats: 16gSaturated Fats: 8gTrans Fats: 0gUnsaturated Fats: 7gLdl cholesterol: 53mgSodium: 104mgCarbohydrates: 38gFiber: 1gSugar: 32gProtein: 2g
