EASY STRAWBERRY TRIFLE RECIPE

Quick & Easy Strawberry Trifle recipe is a delicious dessert layered with fresh strawberries, angel food cake and cream cheese whipped cream! Elegant trifle dessert that’s made in minutes with very simple ingredients.

This is Sarah with Feeding Your Fam and I am excited to share this delicious recipe for a Simple Strawberry Trifle. We are coming up on the summer season when family and friends gather in the yard for BBQs and tasty treats!! Strawberry Trifle is the perfect recipe for potlucks. Fresh and delicious ingredients bring out the tastes of summer and good times!!

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Strawberry Shortcake Trifle

This trifle recipe comes together SUPER FAST because we use store-bought angel food cake, which is often used to make strawberry shortcake! So gather your ingredients and let’s make this trifle in MINUTES!

Now is the time that strawberries are starting to go on sale and you can buy them by the case! I can’t think of any more delicious way to devour them than in a strawberry trifle recipe.

What Kind of Fruit to Use in a Trifle?

This recipe doesn’t just have to made with strawberries, although in my opinion, they are the sweetest! This recipe can also be made with a combination of berries: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and even blackberries. The angel food cake and cream cheese compliment all the berries!

I like to use strawberries for Valentines Day recipes too, since they’re red!

How To Make A Strawberry Trifle

Prepare the Strawberries

The first step to making this strawberry trifle recipe is to slice and sweeten up the strawberries. I like to slice the strawberries so they form a triangle, you can slice them into rounds if you prefer.

Once all of the strawberries are sliced you will combine them with the sugar and a little lemon juice. They will become perfect as they sit and marinate for a few minutes while you assemble the other layers.

Slice the Angel Food Cake

Purchase the round angel food cake, as opposed to the brick cake that’s baked in a bread pan. Take the angel food cake and slice into 3 horizontal layers and set aside.

Mix the Sweet Cream Filling

For the filling, in a large mixing bowl combine the softened cream cheese, cream and vanilla and mix until well combined, like a frosting consistency. If you need to add more cream, go for it!

How to Layer a Trifle

I always love this part of making a strawberry trifle, choose your own adventure and make it a work of art!!

First, put down a layer of angel food cake in the bottom of a shallow bowl, place a few strawberries in the middle circle of the cake, spread on a layer of the cream cheese mixture and bring out more of those deliciously sweet strawberries for the next layer. If you have a clear bowl, you can place some strawberries along the side of the bowl for added flare! You will have plenty of strawberries to add a generous layer.

Continue making layers until you have finished your work of art. The last layer of whipped cream and strawberries should be the last thing you add, just before serving.

Click here to see how to make whipped cream.

Ingredients for a Strawberry Trifle

Here’s what you’ll need to make our Quick & Easy Strawberry Trifle:

– angel food cake (feel free to make one yourself, or cheat and pick up one from the grocery store bakery!) 

– sliced strawberries

-cream cheese

-heavy whipping cream

-vanilla extract

-powdered sugar

– sugar

-lemon juice

How to make a Strawberry Trifle

You’ll begin by slicing the strawberries and sprinkling them with sugar. Toss lightly and then set aside, so that the sugar dissolves and makes a lovely sweet glaze over the strawberries.

Mix together the cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla and some of the whipping cream, then set aside. You’re welcome to use Stabilized Whipped Cream recipe (Cool Whip) in this recipe if you’d prefer. It will be a fast substitution, but I think real whipped cream tastes so much better!

See Stabilized Whipped Cream recipes here.

Take a store-bought angel food cake in thirds, so that you have 3 circles of cake.

Put down a layer of angel food cake in the bottom of a shallow bowl, place a few strawberries in the middle circle of the cake, spread on a layer of the cream cheese mixture and bring out more of those deliciously sweet strawberries for the next layer. If you have a clear bowl, you can place some strawberries along the side of the bowl for added flare! You will have plenty of strawberries to add a generous layer.

Continue making layers until you have finished your work of art. The last layer of whipped cream and strawberries should be the last thing you add, just before serving.

Easy Strawberry Trifle

Quick & Easy Strawberry Trifle recipe is a delicious dessert layered with fresh strawberries, angel food cake and cream cheese whipped cream! Elegant trifle dessert that's made in minutes with very simple ingredients.

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Course: Cake, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: strawberry trifle

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 253kcal

Author: Jessica & Nellie

Ingredients

• 1 prepared angel food cake

Cream cheese layer ingredients

• 2 8 oz packages of cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2 tbsp powdered sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla

Strawberries

• 6 heaping cups of sliced strawberries
• 1 tbsp sugar

Whipping Cream

• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 3 tbsp powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

• Slice strawberries into triangles and place into a large bowl. Sprinkle with sugar and toss to combine.
• Slice the angel food cake into three circles.
• In a mixing bowl combine the softened cream cheese, cream, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Mix until a spreadable, frosting like consistency is formed. Add more cream if needed.
• In a large mixing bowl combine the cream, powdered sugar and vanilla. Whip with until soft peaks form in the whipped cream. Do not overmix.
• To assemble the trifle: In a large shallow bowl, begin with a layer of the angel food cake, fill the hole of the cake with a few strawberries, then spread on ⅓ of the cream cheese mixture then ⅓ of the strawberries.
• Repeat the same for the next 2 layers. Before serving the trifle add a layer of whipping cream and strawberries.

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Notes

Makes: 12 servings

Nutrition

Calories: 253kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 161mg | Potassium: 178mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 590IU | Vitamin C: 42.6mg | Calcium: 61mg | Iron: 0.4mg

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How to Make Strawberry Trifle in Advance

Strawberry trifle is a dessert that you can easily make ahead. Simply layer the cake, cream cheese and strawberries for up to 24-48 hours ahead of time. Store in the refrigerator.  You will want to wait to add the whipping cream and strawberries on top until just before you serve the trifle as the whipping cream can become separated and make the angel food cake soggy.

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Quick & Easy Strawberry Trifle recipe is a delicious dessert layered with fresh strawberries, angel food cake and cream cheese whipped cream! Elegant trifle dessert that’s made in minutes with very simple ingredients.