Mint Chocolate Trifle
A trifle is always a great option for a party, so if you’re looking for St. Patricks’ Day desserts, green desserts or just something delicious to serve, this is a fun one! Surround your dish with a few rainbows, pots of gold and leprechauns and the luck of the Irish may just join your gathering! Trifles are fun and easy desserts to make – plus they look super cool – so consider my Strawberry Trifle with Cream Cheese and Oreo Cookies Chocolate Trifle for other occasions!
Mint Chocolate Trifle Recipe
Ingredients:
1 box chocolate cake mix (usually requires oil, eggs and/or water)
4 cups whole milk
2 boxes white chocolate instant pudding 3.4 oz
1 box mint grasshopper cookies or mint Girl Scout cookies
1-2 drops mint extract
Green gel food coloring
1 can whipped cream
Preheat your oven, prepare, and bake your cake as directed on box. This will differ some depending on brand, so you will want to be prepared with oil, eggs and/or water based on those instructions.
In a large mixing bowl, mix your instant pudding, milk, a drop or two of mint extract (your preference depending on how minty you’d like), and a few drops of green food coloring together. After incorporating thoroughly, set the bowl in the fridge for 5 minutes for the pudding to soft set.
Slice your cake into small pieces and line the bottom of your trifle dish with pieces of cake. Pour half of your green pudding on top of your cake.
Now place your mint cookies on top of your pudding along the sides of the dish. Add another layer of chocolate cake in the middle and around the sides of the dish. Pour the rest of your mint pudding on top of the cake, being sure to fill in all the crevices.
Add one last layer of chocolate cake. Fill the center with whipped cream and then top off your trifle with a few mint cookies. Serve immediately and enjoy!
If you plan to make this a bit ahead of time, wait until the last minute to add your whipped cream and last few cookies. The whipped cream will melt if you spray it too early.
Anchor Hocking Monaco Trifle Bowl
Keebler Cookies – Grasshopper Fudge Mint – 10 ozAmericolor Soft Gel Paste Food Color, 4.5-Ounce, Leaf GreenFrontier Mint Flavor Certified Organic, 2-Ounce BottleJell-O White Chocolate Instant Pudding Mix 3.3 Ounce Box (Pack of 6)Anchor Hocking Presence Party Bowl with White Plastic Lid
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix (usually requires oil, eggs and/or water)
- 4 cups whole milk
- 2 boxes white chocolate instant pudding 3.4 oz
- 1 box mint grasshopper cookies or mint Girl Scout cookies
- 1 tsp mint extract
- Green gel food coloring
- 1 can whipped cream
Instructions
- Preheat your oven, prepare, and bake your cake as directed on box.
- Allow the cake to cool.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix your instant pudding, milk, a drop or two of mint extract (your preference depending on how minty you'd like), and a few drops of green food coloring together.
- After incorporating thoroughly, set the bowl in the fridge for 5 minutes for the pudding to soft set.
- Slice your cake into small pieces and line the bottom of your trifle dish with pieces of cake (with approximately 1/3 of the pieces).
- Pour half of your green pudding on top of your cake.
- Place your mint cookies on top of your pudding along the sides of the dish.
- Add another layer of chocolate cake in the middle and around the sides of the dish.
- Pour the rest of your mint pudding on top of the cake, being sure to fill in all the crevices.
- Add one last layer of chocolate cake.
- Fill the center with whipped cream and then top off your trifle with a few mint cookies.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
