Trifle dessert recipes are ideal for parties, holidays, other entertaining, and any time that you’re in the mood for a special dessert!
Trifle dessert recipes look so fancy. Everyone will be wowed by the presentation. Most trifles do require some time to make and assemble the layers but are not hard recipes. You can also make trifles ahead of time, and the flavors just get better overnight. An easy dessert that’s fitting for a birthday party or holiday gathering is always a win.
Trifle desserts are also so easy to customize. You can make everything from scratch or use store-bought ingredients, such as bakery pound cake and Cool Whip. Additionally, you can switch up the flavors by making substitutions like spice cake instead of yellow cake.
When you don’t want to make a full trifle, mini trifles are a great option. It’s simple to convert any of the full trifles in this post into mini triffles. The small serving sizes are perfectly proportioned and make their own cute presentation.
Pick up a beautiful glass trifle bowl as well as a set of mini glass bowls, so you’re set for all occasions. Footed glass bowls and smaller square cups are both ideal for mini trifles. In a pinch, a 9×13 pan works just fine, too. If you use a glass pan, you’ll still be able to see the layers.
I’ve rounded up trifle dessert recipes for every season and occasion. Enjoy!
34 Trifle Dessert Recipes
1. Berry
You can’t go wrong with the classic berry trifle, especially during the summer. I’m sharing How Sweet Eats’ triple berry trifle. It has strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries layered with pound cake, vanilla pudding, whipped cream, and raspberry sauce.
How Sweet Eats also has trifle recipes for maple pumpkin gingersnap tiramisu, peanut butter fudge brownie, and strawberry shortcake.
2. Key lime
Holly’s Cheat Day’s key lime trifle features biscoff cookies, angel food cake, key lime filling, and whipped topping. It’s everything that you love about key lime pie in a beautiful trifle.
3. Tiramisu
With its layers, tiramisu is an ideal dessert to transform into a trifle. While most tiramisu recipes are not authentic, they are very easy and just as delicious. The View From Great Island’s tiramisu trifle is just seven ingredients and exactly what you want for summer entertaining.
There are so many variations on tiramisu, such as berry, lemon, and pumpkin, all of which work well for trifles.
4. Pumpkin
It wouldn’t be fall without a few pumpkin recipes. Inquiring Chef’s pumpkin spice trifle is the perfect combination of creamy and crunchy with just the right amount of spice. A pumpkin spice trifle is a wonderful option for a Friendsgiving gathering.
5. Banana pudding
Six Sisters’ Stuff’s banana pudding trifle takes everything that you love about banana pudding up a notch. The combination of cream cheese and pudding for the filling makes it extra creamy, which pairs perfectly with the bananas and vanilla wafers.
6. Lemon
Amanda’s Cookin’s lemon lush trifle is fluffy, light, and airy. It’s exactly what you want for summer gatherings. I love the look of the even layers paired with the bright lemon slices on top.
7. Strawberry cheesecake
You can make a cheesecake trifle with any type of fruit. Strawberry is one of the most popular options. Creations by Kara’s strawberry cheesecake trifle has the best cheesecake filling with whipped cream and a hint of orange.
8. Boston cream pie
If you love Boston cream pie, you’ll be excited for Chef in Training’s Boston cream pie trifle. The cream layer is almost like a custard, which is a great compliment to the chocolate ganache.
9. Brownie
When you’re in the mood for a rich dessert, Olivia’s Cuisine’s brownie trifle is right up your alley. Brownies, chocolate pudding, and whipped cream is such a classic dessert combination that people are sure to love at every gathering.
10. Black forest
Olive and Mango’s black forest trifle is another rich chocolate-y trifle dessert. it features chocolate cake, chocolate custard or pudding, cherry pie filling, and vanilla whipped cream. Then you finish the dessert with cherry liquor for the signature black forest flavor.
11. Peaches and cream
Carrie’s Experimental Kitchen’s peaches and cream trifle is a classic trifle recipe that you’ll want to make multiple times when peaches are in season. It’s another recipe that’s easy to customize with different fruits as well.
12. Oreo
The Rebel Chick’s Oreo trifle has whole Oreos and Oreo pudding for maximum Oreo flavor. Crushed cookies on the whipped cream layers give it just the right amount of texture.
13. S’mores
Wine a Little Cook A Lot’s s’mores trifle has layers of graham cracker, vanilla cake, chocolate pudding, and whipped cream and is topped with Hershey’s chocolate bar pieces and mini marshmallows. Toasting the marshmallows is the perfect finishing touch.
14. Coconut cream
Delicious on a Dime’s coconut cream trifle is everything that you love about coconut cream pie, and it’s even easier to make. The homemade coconut pudding takes the flavor over the top.
15. Coconut pineapple
Coconut pineapple is a fabulous tropical flavor pairing that works well for a trifle. Southern Discourse’s coconut pineapple trifle is a little taste of paradise with crushed pineapple, yellow pineapple cake, and cream cheese pudding filling layers, all topped with whipped cream and toasted coconut.
16. Chocolate peanut butter
It’s hard to go wrong with chocolate peanut butter for any dessert, and trifles are no exception. The Blogette’s peanut butter brownie trifle features brownies, peanut butter pudding, and whipped cream, all studded with chopped mini Reese’s cups.
17. White chocolate raspberry
Life, Love, and Sugar’s white chocolate raspberry trifle has white chocolate ganache, white chocolate mousse, pound cake, fresh raspberries, and whipped topping. You can easily switch up the cake and whipped topping to suit your personal preferences.
18. Funfetti
Funfetti is such a fun option for a birthday when you want a dessert that isn’t a traditional cake. Simple and Seasonal makes her funfetti trifle with vanilla cake, white chocolate pudding, and Cool Whip layers, topped with lots of rainbow sprinkles.
19. Banana split
Real Housemoms’ banana split trifle tastes even better than an ice cream banana split sundae. It has layers of yellow cake, vanilla pudding, fresh bananas, fresh strawberries, crushed pineapple, and Cool Whip, finished with chocolate sauce, walnuts, and maraschino cherries.
20. Carrot cake
Tastes of Lizzy T’s carrot cake trifle takes boxed carrot cake mix up a level by layering it with homemade cheesecake and walnuts. You get the perfect mix of creamy and crunchy with so much flavor.
21. Caramel apple
Apple trifles are ideal during the fall season. The Best Cake Recipes’ caramel apple trifle features pound cake, fried sweet apples, cheesecake filling, caramel sauce, and pecans. Spice cake and apple cider donuts are also great options for the cake layer.
22. Apple pie
Mountain Mama Cooks’ apple pie trifle is perfect for fall entertaining as well and would be great for a Friendsgiving gathering. It has layers of homemade cheesecake, fried sweet apples, caramel sauce, and a crunchy graham cracker crumble.
23. Turtle
A baJillian Recipes’ turtle trifle has it all with butter pecan cake, caramel cream, chocolate ganache, salted caramel, and toasted pecans. White, yellow, or chocolate cake would all be great for the cake layer in a turtle trifle, too.
24. Raspberry peach
Raspberry peach is one of my favorite fruit pairings. Life, Love, and Sugar’s raspberry peach trifle is spiked with wine to give it a sangria twist, which is ideal for summer. Soaking the peaches in wine and then adding a little wine to the whipped cream gives the dessert just the right amount of wine flavor.
25. Death by chocolate
Kitchen Fun with My 3 Son’s death by chocolate trifle is the ultimate chocolate lover’s dessert. It has layers of chocolate cake, pudding, fudge, Oreos, and whipped cream, topped with Heath bars.
26. Sticky toffee
A sticky toffee trifle is a modern twist on a holiday classic and the perfect fusion of Scottish and English desserts. The Scottish Scran’s sticky toffee trifle features their sticky toffee pudding traybake, layered with caramel custard and whipped cream.
27. Peppermint
Inside BruCrew Life’s peppermint brownie trifle is an impressive dessert to bring to holiday parties. It has layers of homemade brownies and peppermint cheesecake, topped with Cool Whip and peppermint candy pieces.
28. English Christmas
A Christmas trifle is a classic English dessert with pound cake, creme anglaise, fresh fruit, and whipped cream. What a Girl Eats makes her English Christmas trifle with raspberries and poached pears.
29. Cranberry
Cranberry desserts have the best sweet-tart flavor pairings. Spend with Pennies’ cranberry trifle is no exception. It features white cake, creamy homemade pudding, and sugared cranberries, topped with whipped cream and more cranberries.
30. Eggnog
Eggnog is such a versatile ingredient to feature in desserts during the Christmas season. Even when you don’t want to drink eggnog straight (I don’t either), it still adds great flavor to sweet treats. Chef in Training’s eggnog trifle has pound cake, vanilla wafers, a creamy eggnog pudding filling, and whipped cream.
31. Gingerbread
Gingerbread is another fantastic flavor for holiday desserts. I am Baker’s gingerbread trifle features homemade gingerbread cake and two kinds of pudding – pumpkin spice and white chocolate, topped with Cool Whip and more cake pieces.
32. Red velvet
Home Cooked Harvest has a patriotic take on red velvet trifle with red and blue berries and cake stars for the top of the cake. Red velvet is perfect for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and birthdays as well.
33. Reese’s Butterfinger Oreo
If you’ve never gotten over classic candy from your childhood, The Best Cake Recipes’ Reese’s Butterfinger Oreo trifle will be right up your alley. The firm cake, soft cream, and crunchy candy bars make for great texture in every bite.
34. Banoffee
Banoffee is a fabulous dessert concept for all sorts of recipes, including trifles. Cuisinovia’s banoffee trifle features biscuits and bananas layered with homemade caramel sauce and pastry cream.
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