Mini JELL-O® Trifle Bites

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An oh-so-cute festive-looking dessert that'll have all your guests talking. Made in muffin cups, they have all the components of a trifle but can be easily popped in your ...read more

time

prep:

10 min

total:

2 hr 10 min

servings

total:

12 servings, 2 trifles each

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What You Need

cups boiling water

pkg. (4-serving size each) JELL-O Raspberry Flavor Gelatin

slices (3/4-inch thick each) prepared pound cake, cut into 24 cubes

pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

cup powdered sugar

cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping

tsp. grated lemon zest

Make It

PLACE foil liners in 24 miniature muffin pan cups. Stir boiling water into dry gelatin mixes in large bowl 2 min. until completely dissolved. Place 1 cake cube in each muffin cup; pour gelatin over cake to fill cup completely. Refrigerate 2 hours or until set.

BEAT cream cheese in small bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until well blended after each addition. Gently stir in whipped topping and lemon peel until well blended.

FILL pastry bag fitted with star tip with cream cheese mixture. Pipe decorative dollop of cream cheese mixture on top of each trifle.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Healthy Living

Save 80 calories and 4 grams of fat per serving by preparing with JELL-O Raspberry Flavor Sugar Free Gelatin, fat free pound cake, PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese and COOL WHIP LITE or FREE Whipped Topping. Try our healthy living version of Mini JELL-O® Trifle Bites.

Substitute

This recipe can be made with any flavor JELL-O Gelatin.

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a cook

posted:11/30/2005

Whoever doesn't like the idea of mixing jello with cake obviously doesn't know or care about how the original English trifles are made. This is a great and much easier replication. Thanks

hallel1

posted:11/30/2005

I guess Shambudette's never made a "poke cake" (cake poked with holes after it's baked and jello poured over it and frosted with whipped topping... My kids all love it. Try it. You might find you like it.

kaysueh

posted:11/30/2005

YUMMY!! I don't think the other person gave it a try. To me at first it did sound gross, but I tried it any way and it was YUMMY!!

JulieP63

posted:11/30/2005

What a cute way to serve jell-o!! These turned out so cute. There is a problem with the quantity. I didn't have quite enough Jell-O for 24 trifles and there was a lot of topping left over.

Shambudette

posted:11/30/2005

Sorry Kraft Kitchen, this sounds like it would be terrible. Jello gelatin & CAKE!! YUCK!! I agree pudding probably be better. Better yet just have the cake and save the topping for something else. Back to the kitchen crew!! ;)

TNPatti

posted:11/30/2005

For a great variation, use pudding instead of jello. Use a favorite sugar free and it's still great.

a cook

posted:11/29/2005

I figured the cake would become soggy so substituted a large fresh strawberry and used strawberry Jell-O. Topping was woderful.

JulieRWest

posted:11/26/2005

I was not impressed with this recipe. Due to red food coloring allegeries I substituted lime jell-o for the raspberry and did not like the taste of the pound cake and lime together. I also found that the pound cake pieces were soggy. I did though think the topping was delicious and spread it between slices of the remaining pound cake for mini sandwiches. I will keep the topping recipe but will not ever make the jell-o bites again.

a cook

posted:11/12/2005

I used Diet jello. but otherwise followed the recipe and was only able to get 21 trifles BUT the topping mixture made twice as much as needed. They were very tasty, and may make them again with some adjustments in measuring out the ingredients for the topping.