Creations Black Forest Trifle
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: about 30 minutes
Serves: about 20 servings
The ultimate chocolate dessert layered with moist chocolate cake, creamy filling and cherries.
Ingredients
For the trifle
3 extra large eggs
100ml cooking oil
250ml milk
500g Snowflake Creations Chocolate Cake Mix
For layering trifle
250ml imitation whipping cream
150g chocolate icing mix (½ of the supplied sachet)
1 tin black cherries, strained (keep the sauce separate)
1 bottle maraschino cherries, strained (keep the sauce separate)
30ml Snowflake Corn Flour
100g glacé cherries
Method
- First bake the trifle...
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Beat oil, eggs and milk with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds until mixture is a light creamy colour, then add cake mix
- Beat batter with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds on slow speed until incorporated, then about 4 minutes on high speed
- Pour batter into two greased 20 cm round cake tins and bake for about 30 minutes
- Cool completely before using in trifle
- ... then layer the trifle
- Cut each of the cooled cakes into 2 cm squares
- Whip imitation whipping cream until peaks form, then divide into 2
- Add 150 g chocolate icing mix to half of the whipped imitation whipping cream
- Mix maraschino cherry sauce and black cherry sauce together
- Add corn flour to cherry sauce and thicken in a saucepan over medium heat, then cool
- Layer the bottom of a glass trifle serving bowl with cake
- Drizzle some thickened cherry sauce over the cake
- Layer black cherries and maraschino cherries on top
- Spread a layer of whipped chocolate imitation whipping cream
- Spread a layer of whipped imitation whipping cream
- Repeat the layering process until all ingredients are used
- Finish off with whipped imitation whipping cream and top with glacé cherries
