Sweetheart Trifle

Submitted by Zoe Home

"I love the chocolate/peanut butter taste! I found this in a cooking magazine, it originally called for Nestle Crunch Bars, but I don't care for those, so I decided to use the peanut butter cups. Try a different candy bar and find your favorite! I am not positive about the prep time, but it includes chilling."

 

• Ready In: 6hrs 40mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 12-15

ingredients

• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
• 10 ounces peanut butter chips
• 4 1⁄4 cups cold milk, divided
• 1⁄2 cup whipping cream
• 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 (6 ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 (12 ounce) carton Cool Whip, thawed
• 4 -6 Reese's Peanut Butter cups, crumbled

directions

1. Prepare cake mix according to directions, let cool completely.
2. In a heavy saucepan, combine chips, 1/4 c milk and the whipping cream.
3. Cook and stir over low heat until chips are melted.
4. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla and cool to room temp.
5. (If you don't melt the chips on high heat, it will only take a 1/2 hour to cool) Place the remaining milk in a mixing bowl; beat in the pudding mixes on low speed for 2 minutes.
6. To assemble, crumble half the cake into a 4 qt trifle bowl or large bowl.
7. Layer with 1/2 the peanut butter sauce, pudding, whipped topping and then repeat layers.
8. At the end, add the crumbled peanut butter cups.
9. Cool for 3 hours.

Reviews

[whtbxrmom]

I read the reviews before making this and couldn't decide if I should use cake or brownies. So I used a combination, a layer of chocolate cake and a layer of brownies. I also used 1 1/2 recipes for the peanut butter sauce because a reviewer said they couldn't taste it. I used the chopped up peanut butter cups but also threw in a chopped up Reeses Nutrageous bar. I took it to work as part of a potluck lunch. I was totally surprised when my frosted sugar cookies were gone before this and that I didn't have an empty dish at the end of the day. But, we did enjoy the leftovers at home.

 

[Taxi Mom]

This was really good. I couldn't taste the peanut butter sauce real well so next time I might double the peanut butter sauce recipe.

 

[jayde700]

WOW! This is so wonderful! I also used brownies instead of cake, it was absoluely sinful! Everyone loved it at the party! Thank you!

 

[scfl76]

This recipe is delicious! Instead of the cake, I added the extra 'oomph' of dark chocolate brownies. It was absolute chocolate overload, but totally worth it.

 

[nascarmom]

I doubled this recipe and put it in a large punch bowl. I carried it into the mother daughter banquet and started feeling like the pied Piper. I turned around and all the guys serving at the banquet were following me to see what it was. When I got through the line for the dessert the only thing left to do was to lick the bowl. I will have to make it again so I can have some. I heard comments all around me about how awesome this dessert was. Thanks for sharing!