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If you are looking for an easy dessert that looks good and tastes good, this butterscotch trifle needs to be in your lineup. As you know, every once in a while, I will create a recipe that uses box ingredients. This is one of those times and this butterscotch trifle would be a great dessert to make with your kids. The cake was made with a box mix as was the pudding. The whipped cream did not come out of a container but making homemade whipped cream is so easy and tastes so much better than the alternative. Simply add cream, sugar and vanilla to your stand mixer and let it go. Voila!
Butterscotch Trifle
- 1 chocolate cake mix box
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 4 boxes butterscotch pudding
- 8 cups milk
- 2 cups Heavy Cream
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Combine the cake batter, oil and eggs. Stir well.
- Pour into a baking pan.
- Cook at 350 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes. Let cool.
- Combine the butterscotch pudding mix and milk in a sauce pan.
- Bring to a boil and cook for 12 - 15 minutes. Let cool in the fridge.
- In a stand mixer, combine the heavy cream and sugar. Beat until soft peaks form.
- Add the vanilla and mix until combined.
- Assemble the trifle in layers. Start by crumbling the cake with your hands.
- Put a 2" layer on the bottom of the dish.
- Next, added a 1/2 of the butterscotch pudding.
- Then, put most of the whipped cream layer reserving a little for the plating.
- Finish, by adding a cake layer, another pudding layer and then put some whipped cream in the center. Top with more cake crumbs.
- Serve and enjoy!
Ingredients
Start by following the instructions on the pudding box container. Cook and then let set.
Caramel Pudding in Pot
Meanwhile, mix the cake ingredients according to the box instructions.
Cake Mix Ingredients
Then, pour into a baking tray and bake. Now that’s easy.
Baked Cake
Break the cake up with your hands and put the 1st layer in your serving dish.
1st Cake Layer Added
2nd layer of pudding is added next.
Pudding Layer Added
The whipped cream is added.
Whipped Cream Added
The process is repeated with the cake and then the pudding.
Cake Layer Added
And it is finally topped off with a little whipped cream and some cake crumbs.
Serve and enjoy!
Easy, elegant and a hit with everyone.
Thank you!
Thx so much. Glad you liked it. Sometimes, simple just works!
I’m making this today for my Bible study group. One suggestion; in the list of ingredients if you could add Cook & Serve to the pudding that would be helpful. I thought it was instant so went to a second store to buy instant then realized today i had to cook the pudding. If I had seen that originally I could have bought that at the original store. I’ll have to go back and get it. Not a huge deal. Easy enough for me as I live close to the store but I know some people don’t. Looking forward to eating this! Thank you for sharing!
thx for letting me know. I will update the recipe right now.
Please update your core recipe as it doesn’t say to bake cake according to box – just says to all eggs and oil. I wasted my box of cake with I correct instructions
Thx for letting me know. I hope you enjoyed the trifle.
Peter! What a great idea! This looks so delicious and the possibilities are endless! The only thing I need now is that bowl!
My wife gets all the credit for the bowl.
Peter, this trifle is beautiful.
I like you don’t use boxed ingredients often, but they are handy when your short on time, and your recipe is impressive! You would not know by looking at it that it was boxed ingredients! Hubby would love this, he is a huge fan of butterscotch.
Thx Shelby. The older I get the more I like butterscotch. Sometimes, you just do not have that much time and need to grab the boxed ingredients.
G’day You got my attention at Butterscotch Peter! Great photos and recipe! Cheers! Joanne
Thx for the smile!
Sounds simple to make and really yummy Peter!
Thx Nancy.
Great flavors – so pretty, too!
Thx Pat.
This is an easy trifle. But what is so wonderful about it, is that it so dang impressively GRAND.
It also makes an Auntie Mame entrance.
Your comment made me laugh. What is an Auntie Mame entrance?
We Brits do love a good trifle and the fall colors of this are so inviting. Looks amazing.
Thx Janette.