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This easy Red Velvet Raspberry Trifle recipe is a showstopping dessert that can be made in 10 minutes!
I love the layers of red raspberries and red velvet cake offset by the fluffy cream cheese whipped cream! It is so simple but looks elegant! She is one of the most beautiful and effortless desserts on my list of Valentine’s Day Desserts to date. She might even be easier than my Red Velvet Cookies, but that’s for you to judge!
I layered it all the red velvet raspberry trifle in one large trifle dish but you could layer them in small dishes with a similar effect!
Happily, I made this with the leftovers from my Red Velvet Pound Cake but you could just as easily use store bought. I wouldn’t suggest using regular red velvet cake, or you might just end up with mush! You need the structure of the pound cake. You could make it with pound cake of any flavor or use my Sour Cream Pound Cake or the Best Chocolate Pound Cake eva!
I am a lover of Pound Cake; an aficionado if you will. At Starbucks their lemon pound cake is my weakness. While their scones are sad and dry (Mine aren’t!), their pound cake is dense, moist and flavorful. As it should be.
This trifle is exceptionally easy, and if you are into easy desserts like me, then you should try this Tropical Fruit Trifle or this Lemon Berry Trifle too! Dress them up or down, make them large or small. No matter how you style them, they will always win on flavor!
Red Velvet Raspberry Trifle
Ingredients
- ½-1 Red Velvet Pound Cake or store bought!
- 2 cups Red Raspberries
- 1 quart Heavy whipping cream
- 8 oz Cream Cheese I prefer the flavor of Philadelphia full fat
- ¾ cup Light brown sugar
Instructions
- To prepare the whipped cream:
- In a large bowl, combine all ingredients and immersion blend. You can also do this in the blender or use room temperature cream cheese and omit this step.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer or with a hand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the mixture until soft peaks form. Soft peaks are when the whisk is removed from the bowl and the cream stays on the whisk and forms a peak but the tip falls over. The cream cheese whipped cream will firm up as it chills, so you want to be sure to not over whip it.
- Cut your cake into cubes (ish). I use about ½ inch cubes for a large trifle but I cut them half the size for individual trifles.
- Layer Up!: Start with a layer of the whipped cream, followed by raspberries and the cake cubes. Repeat until the reach the top! I like to end with whipped cream and decorate with torn raspberries and cake crumbs!
- Refrigerate until ready to serve. Trifles are best served the day after they are made, which gives the flavors time to meld.
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Before You Go
I hope you enjoyed this professional chef tested recipe. Check out our other delicious winter dessert recipes, or try my best red velvet cupcake recipe next!
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