Summer has almost come to an end! Can you believe it?! But it’s not gone yet and seeing I still have 2 weeks left until I have to officially say “goodbye” to summer I decided to make a summer favorite! Raspberry Trifles. 🙂 Well, these are a summer/fall/winter/spring favorite, really! Freshly baked pound cake, super tart raspberries, a hint of lemon, sweet cream-cheese filling, and freshly whipped cream{sweetened with maple ’cause it doesn’t get much better than pure maple!} makes for a rather delightful combination that will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth! 🙂
Note: I used pure maple to sweeten the cream but you can definitely use regular powder sugar! Both will work. (:
Yields 8 mugs or 1 larger trifle dish!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1/4 cup pure maple{or powdered sugar!}
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 8oz packages creamcheese{softened!}
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1Â pound cake
- 10 oz frozen raspberries{thawed and drained BUT reserve juice!}
- cocoa powder for dusting!
Directions
- In a medium bowl, beat cream with 1/4 cup maple or sugar until stiff peaks form. In another bowl, cream together cream cheese, lemon juice, vanilla and 1/2 cup sugar. Fold 2 cups of whipped cream into cream cheese mixture. Reserve remaining whipped cream.
- Cube pound cake into 18 – 1/2 inch slices. Drain raspberries, reserving juice. Line the bottom of a 3 quart glass bowl or trifle bowl with one-third of the cake slices. If using mugs do the same but on a smaller scale. 🙂 Drizzle with some raspberry juice, then spread one-fourth of the cream cheese mixture over cake. Sift one-fourth of the cocoa over that. Sprinkle with one-third of the raspberries. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining cream cheese mixture, whipped cream and sifted cocoa. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour but best when you let the set overnight!
- Grab a cup of coffee and about 7 or so good friends. ENJOY!! 🙂
Sarah
Oh, oh, yum! Raspberries are one of my favorite berries…they bring back memories from Bear Lake, Utah and Saxon mountain Colorado. Fun times!
Rachel
With raspberries, you can’t go wrong! Thanks for the comment, Sarah! 🙂
shadowlilies
Wow! We’re going to have to try this soon. 🙂
Rachel
Hope you all enjoy the recipe if you give it a try. 🙂 They are fun to put together!