This easy Christmas trifle won't stress you out but will save your holiday entertainment. Layers of red velvet cake, pudding, and whipped cream come together quickly and make this gorgeous and delicious holiday treat.
Where I'm from, there are no easy desserts. Like our cooking, baking desserts takes hours and sometimes, days. That's probably why I never liked baking. American cuisine taught me that making desserts can be easy, quick, and fun.
This Christmas trifle is quick and easy but it looks like you've spent hours making it. I had fun using gingerbread cookies and sprinkles to decorate it, but you can certainly make it your own.
Easy Hack
Although I prefer homemade cake so I can control what goes into it, for this recipe I used boxed cake mix. Christmas cooking is already so demanding and stressful, so why not make baking a little easier, right? The little ones certainly don't care if it's made from scratch or not.
Red velvet cake mix and vanilla pudding tinted with green food color are so festive and will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth. You can use pistachio pudding instead, however, the color is too pale so I'd still add the green food coloring.
Doesn't it look just so Christmassy and inviting? Dig in! Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Easy Christmas Trifle Recipe
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~ Free Tip ~
Use white chocolate instant pudding mix instead of vanilla. To omit food coloring, try using pistachio pudding.
How to Make Easy Christmas Trifle:
- Prepare cake batter and bake in 13x9-inch pan as directed on package. Cool completely.
- Beat pudding mixes and milk in a medium bowl with whisk for 2 minutes. Mix in green food coloring until the desired shade is reached.
- Cut cake into ½-inch cubes. Layer half each of the cake, pudding, and the whipped cream in a trifle bowl. Repeat layers.
- Decorate as desired.
Easy Christmas Trifle Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 package red velvet cake mix
- 2 packages 3.9 oz. each JELL-O Vanilla instant pudding
- 1 qt. 4 cups cold milk
- 1 tub 8 oz. whipped cream, thawed
- Green food coloring
Instructions
- Prepare cake batter and bake in 13x9-inch pan as directed on package. Cool completely.
- Beat pudding mixes and milk in a medium bowl with whisk for 2 minutes. Mix in green food coloring until the desired shade is reached.
- Cut cake into ½-inch cubes. Layer half each of the cake, pudding, and the whipped cream in a trifle bowl. Repeat layers.
- Decorate as desired.
Notes
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It certainly does look festive. Plus t this time of year easy is pretty a darn awesome.
I totally agree, Elise! 🙂
A nice simple Christmas Trifle. We will feature this on the Blogger's Pit Stop this week.
Kathleen
Blogger's Pit Stop
Thank you so much, Kathleen! I'm thrilled. 😀
Mmmm, that looks great, and so pretty too! Love the little cookies decorating the sides of the bowl, and I love red velvet cake!
Hi, Florence! Hope your week is off to a great start! I'm glad you like this trifle! 🙂 Thanks for stopping in! XO
This is about the prettiest dish ever! Love it 🙂
Aw, thank you, Jen! 😀
This is the most festive trifle I have ever seen !!
Aw, thanks Amber! 😀
Your Easy Christmas Trifle looks fantastic, it will be a big hit at any party! Hope you have a great week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday.
Miz Helen
Thank you, as always, Miz Helen!
Wow this looks fantastic and so fun!
Thanks, Kat! 😀
This is such a unique trifle! I love the colors!!! Going on my menu for Christmas Eve!
Thank you, Natalie! 🙂 Enjoy!
Your trifle looks gorgeous and really does sound easy to make! Pinned and stumbled:) #Fiesta Friday
Thank you, Monika! Appreciate your kindness. Enjoy your weekend!
I love trifles. This is the perfection addition to the holiday table. Festive, fun and yummy! Thanks for sharing on Sunday's Best.
Thank you bunches, Rhonda! 🙂
I am sure this would be a great desert during the holiday and for this week’s Fiesta Friday party! Thanks for coming and happy Fiesta Friday!
Thank you, Jhuls! Have a great weekend!
Yes, I LOVE trifles for easy and impressive desserts. And this one is so festive, too! Thanks so much for sharing at the #happynowlinkup!
Thank you, darling Leslie!
How pretty - I love how the top layer looks like snow! Thanks for sharing at The Blogger's Pit Stop! Roseann from http://www.thisautoimmunelife.com
Thank you, Roseann! You have a great observation. 🙂
I love how Christmasy the colors are! Thanks for sharing with Party in Your PJs!
Thanks for the recipe! I like to cook, but with all the busyness of the holidays, I love anything that is simple. And I love the idea of adding the gingerbread cookies to the top! So festive!
I know, right? There's so much food to be cooked for holidays, so the simpler the better 🙂
Hi Jas, hope to see you over at Food on Friday with this and other great things. Cheers from Carole's chatter
Thanks, Carole!
So cute!!
Thank you, Jenna! 🙂
Wow, layers of red velvet cake, pudding, and whipped cream sound heavenly! I have never seen or tried a recipe like this. Thank you for the recipe. This would be great to take to my family party!
Thanks, Natalie! It's pretty easy to make which is a plus when we get so busy with holidays 🙂
Such a pretty dessert! And it looks delicious! Pinning to my Christmas treats board.
Thank you, Beverly! Have a wonderful week!
I used to make trifle every Christmas. You've inspired me to make it again, it looks delicious!
Karee
Thanks, Karee. Gotta love easy desserts 🙂
I love how you decorated it, very creative.
Thanks so much, Crystal!
Looks yummy! I just love triffles! They're always pretty easy to throw together and taste so good!
That they are! Can't really mess them up 🙂
What a fun and festive dessert. Of course you did it up so cute. I'll have to remember this for our holiday parties!
Best of all, so easy to make and yummy 😀
This is very pretty to look at. You know, I had no idea what red velvet cake was until a few years ago - it seemed like a southern thing, like sweet tea. It seems like an awfully lot of red food colouring... maybe if the colour came from beets I'd be more enthusiastic, I don't know. You know what, maybe I just need another drink.... Carolans & coffee (perfectly legit am liquor, amiright?)
I have no clue how much red food coloring is in the red velvet cake mix. Never made it from scratch though. Once I made a red velvet cake for my BIL like a coiled snake, with fondant that looked like a skin of a yellow python with head and everything. He loved it, especially when he cut it through and all that red showed up! 🙂
That totally reminds me of that movie scene in Steel Magnolias where the Mother of the Groom made a red velvet Groom's cake in the shape of an armadillo!
Haha, true! 😀