Sweetheart Trifle
photo by Marg (CaymanDesigns)
- Ready In:
- 6hrs 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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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
- Prepare cake mix according to directions, let cool completely.
- In a heavy saucepan, combine chips, 1/4 c milk and the whipping cream.
- Cook and stir over low heat until chips are melted.
- Remove from heat; stir in vanilla and cool to room temp.
- (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.
- To assemble, crumble half the cake into a 4 qt trifle bowl or large bowl.
- Layer with 1/2 the peanut butter sauce, pudding, whipped topping and then repeat layers.
- At the end, add the crumbled peanut butter cups.
- Cool for 3 hours.
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Reviews
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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.
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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!
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I am a stay-at-home mom and I love being with my 1 year old son all day! We are best buds and do everything together. I enjoy finding new recipes, my husband and I haven't been married terribly long, so I'm still trying to find recipes we both like. I love to read and am trying to learn to sew also!