4th of July Strawberry and Blueberry Trifle Recipe

4th of July Strawberry and Blueberry Trifle Recipe bettyskitchen Hi I’m Betty. Welcome to Betty’s Kitchen. Today we’re making strawberry-blueberry trifle and I think you’re going to like it because it is going to be colored red white and blue. It’s getting close to the 4th of July you might want to use it as a dessert. So we’re going to start over here where I’m going to put together a little pudding and I wanted a white pudding and the flavor is right to go with my strawberries and blueberries so this is white chocolate. That sounds yummy with strawberries and blueberries. This is happens to be a sugar free instant so all I have to do is add to the mix 2 cups of cold milk and then blend. I have beaten the milk into this white chocolate pudding mix for about 2 minutes and has this consistency it will set up a little bit more a bit. It’s pudding consistency. I do want to say about the white chocolate pudding mix. I’m sure that some of you are not going to be able to find it. What you can do is substitute say vanilla or maybe banana flavor or any flavor that you would like with strawberries and blueberries but I’m just suggesting 2 flavors and I think would work very well. Alright let’s continue with our trifle. You need some kind pudding bowl if you want this to show through in it’s best and what I have I’ll explain before I start assembling it. I have pound cake which I made last week. Last weekend I think so it actually would have still been reasonably fresh but I froze it because that’s an easy way to get these nice cubes and if you want it to look pretty then you don’t want chunks necessarily although that is one way people make their trifles. I have 2 cups and 2 cups here so to divide it because you want to put the mayonnaise in 2 separate parts. I have a bowl which is has ¼ of strawberries minus ½ cup and a bowl with ¼ of blueberries minus ½ cup. I think I’ll probably use these on the top as garnish and we’ll just see I thought I would have use for it. I have some Splenda here just to remind me to tell you that sometimes your strawberries will be a little tart and also I’m using the sugar free pudding so to give this a little more sweetness you can add Splenda without adding calories. So I put about 2 tablespoons of Splenda on each one of these and just kind of stirred it in so that it will be ready to go so we’re ready to assemble. I’m going to take one of these 2 cup measures of pound cake. If you want to use angel food cake, if you want to buy your pound cake that’s fine. You do not have to make your pound cake and then freeze it and do all that kind of stuff. It’s just the way it worked out for me. Put it back in the bottom and then a bowl for your fruit. I like with the strawberries first half of them will be spread out in such a way that you’ll see them at the side but we’ll try to get some in the center too. So just a nice coating of the red fruit that you’re using if you want a substitute say raspberries that would be fine also and then we’ll do the same thing with the blue berries right on top of the strawberries. See I have created that, it’s beginning to come together and how much it looks like a trifle. Remember get to the edges or else it will not be as pretty and as showy a dish as what I’m hoping to come up with here. So I made just about half of it them and I always have to remember get the center too because people dip in to all parts of this. Now here’s where our pudding comes in. Half of it is going to go on and it’s at a consistency now that it will just drizzle pretty easily. You’re going to let this sit in the refrigerator for quite a long time in order for it to get the best flavor so that pound is going to kind of dissolve with this pudding coming down over the top of it so just put that pudding in about half of it and then spread because you do want it to have contact as it drizzles down with as much of the pound cake as possible. So that’s half of it. Now do the same thing again. I don’t think you need to watch me do this so I’ll come back when I have the next layer put on. I just finished layering my strawberry-blueberry trifle one with a pound cake and the white chocolate pudding and I like for the knife of the top to be nicely decorated so what I have here is some whipped topping. It’s just regular. You can get the light variety if you like and just a little bit of that along the top and put it toward the center if you want to or if you have like a half of a container here that I grabbed out of the refrigerator. If you want to put a whole container 8 ounce container then you can go all the way to the edges but I’m just kind of giving the illusion of some snow whiteness in order to nestle some strawberries and blueberries along the top for garnish. So just a little bit more here and make it mound up a little bit and make it attractive in the design that you make and since this is almost finished let me go ahead and get all of it. There we go and then just roll around a little bit do this however you like it will be your personality going into this, not mine just a little bit of my idea of what you can put together and have it taste good and look pretty. When you get to this point since it’s strawberry and blueberry, I would take a few of my reserve strawberries and place them around and then we have a few blueberries. It’s about enough I think to look good and then just sprinkle it with your blueberries. No particular pattern. Doesn’t that look like 4th of July? This is Betty’s Strawberry-Blueberry Trifle.