Have you guys ever seen the Friends episode where Rachel makes the trifle on Thanksgiving? She’s famously a terrible cook and Monica finally lets her help with Thanksgiving dinner by making the dessert.
Friends: The one where Ross got high.
She decides to make a traditional English trifle and shows it off to her friends, proudly describing the layers as, “A layer of ladyfingers, a layer or jam, a layer of whipped cream (which I made from scratch), a layer of beef sautéed with onions…”
The cookbook she was using had its pages stuck together so she made half an English trifle and half a shepherds pie. And poor Rachel, who doesn’t know how to cook, didn’t even notice. Every time I hear the word “trifle” I always think of that scene.
All the chocolatey layers.
This trifle is nothing like that trifle (thank goodness!). There are no ladyfingers, no jam and definitely no beef sautéed with peas and onions. But there is whipped cream. And it’s Nutella whipped cream, so you know that’s going to be good.
And it doesn’t stop there. There’s even more chocolate 3X in the form of chocolate pudding, Oreos and brownies or cake crumbles. Get. In. My. Belly.
The thing I love about a trifle is that it looks so pretty and fancy and like it took you all day to make and put together, but it’s really pretty simple. It’ll be our secret. You can also assemble it in a fancy trifle dish. Although a pretty, tall glass bowl works just as well.
This trifle can be assembled really quickly once the components are all made. It hits the spot for any occasion (I would DEFINITELY not judge you if you made it just because it was Thursday and you wanted a delicious treat), but look how cute it is for fall / halloween as a little pumpkin patch! Not fall? Simply replace the candy corn pumpkins with pieces of your favorite candy.
The cake or brownie crumbles mixed with Oreo crumbs look like dirt, so why not finish it with little mellowcreme pumpkins and pretend it’s a pumpkin patch? Perfect for your fall party or get together. Fancy and so pretty, but also kind of just a giant bowl of dirt pudding for adults.
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