Layered, festive, and crowd-pleasing — these Christmas trifles make the perfect holiday dessert.
Christmas Trifle
This Christmas Trifle Dessert feels fancy but actually takes very little effort. It’s colorful. It’s creamy. It’s tasty. And best of all, it comes together in no time.
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Strawberry Jello Trifle
You’ll just need 5 affordable everyday ingredients to make this showstopping (and ridiculously easy) strawberry jello trifle! With colorful layers of strawberries (and optional blueberries), jello, pudding, whipped topping and cake, this delicious layered dessert is ideal to feed a crowd, perfect for holidays and big family gatherings!
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Greek Yogurt Berry Trifle
This berry trifle with Greek yogurt and protein cake is a delicious and simple to make dessert that I love to have for brunch or breakfast too, because that’s how I roll. With fresh strawberries, blueberries and raspberries, this Greek yogurt trifle is a very light treat, low in calories and packed with protein!
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Black Forest Chocolate Trifle
Black Forest Chocolate Trifle is an extraordinary dessert that is surprisingly easy to make. Layers of chocolate cake, chocolate pudding and cherry pie filling form a beautiful make ahead dessert that everyone loves!
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Cranberry Trifle Recipe
This easy Cranberry Trifle Recipe has soft cake layered with sweet-tart cranberries and a creamy homemade custard. Trifles are best made ahead of time making them the perfect desserts for potlucks or holiday meals!
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Italian Christmas Pudding Cake
If you need a large, easy, festive dessert for the holidays it doesn’t get any better than this no-bake Italian Christmas Pudding Cake! It uses panettone to make a trifle-like creamy pudding.
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Champagne Trifle
Starting from a cake mix saves you time so you can make the pastry cream and spend a bit more time decorating without the whole affair becoming too onerous.
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Amaretto Pear Trifle
This delicious Amaretto Pear Trifle is perfect for winter and large enough to feed your holiday crowd and have leftovers! If you can whip cream you can make this!
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Summer Trifle with Berries
This summer trifle is the ultimate no-bake dessert layered with homemade berry jelly, vanilla sponge, luscious custard, and fresh seasonal berries. It’s festive, fruity, and always a crowd-pleaser-perfect for warm-weather celebrations!
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Christmas Kitchen: New Years Day Trifle
As I explained last year when I shared how I make my cranberry sauce, I marked down the first chapter of Nigella Lawson’s Feast as my go-to bible for festive feasting. Along with where I have adapted my cranberry sauce recipe from, and where I get my recipe for Cherry & Clove Glazed Ham in Cherry Coke (which I plan to share my tweaks of next year), it is where I have taken my slightly adulterated New Years Day Trifle from.
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Farah Zeb is a mother of five, including two children with special needs. She shares practical parenting tips and resources to help other families navigate daily challenges and create supportive, nurturing environments.
