In episode 070 we are making the most delicious Chocolate and Peppermint Christmas Trifle. It is an impressive dessert that holds up perfectly to the expectation of Holiday Sweets. They are served in individual cups with layers of brownie, peppermint cream cheese “mousse”, fudge and Andes Peppermint Chips.
One of the best parts is that the dessert can be made a day ahead for easy prep!
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Intro: Welcome, welcome everybody to another episode of Let’s Make Dinner, your audio library of amazing dinner recipes you can always get on the table. I’m your host, Susie Weinrich.
Susie Weinrich: Woohoo. Happy holidays, everybody. If you’re listening to this episode or you’re looking at this recipe, then it’s probably close to Christmas time. Because today we’re going to make a really quick and easy Christmas dessert called a chocolate Christmas trifle. Super delicious, super easy. It’s not quite a traditional trifle. If you’ve ever had a trifle before, it’s kind of a traditional English dessert that’s made in one really big bowl that’s usually stemmed. It’s going to have layers of a pudding or a custard or a whipped cream and cake and fruit. But we’re going to sub out some of the flavors or something a little bit more festive. So we’re going to use peppermint cream cheese whipped cream. We’re going to use brownies, fudge and these little peppermint chip baking chips things that are so delicious, layer it all together in individual cups and it just makes a super impressive dessert. Perfect to stand up to the expectations of Christmas.
Tips and Tricks: Let’s get on to making this delicious recipe for a chocolate Christmas trifle. Like I said, it’s not going to be totally traditional, so instead of using the stemmed trifle bowl, we’re actually going to make them in individual cups and just about any small cup will work here. What I like to use is something called a bodega glass, and I actually get them at World Market. They’re super affordable. I think they’re like 2.99 a piece or something, and it’s just a very thin plain glass, but it looks beautiful. Another option would be to go to a thrift store or an estate sale and find a set of really unique little glasses that you could serve your trifle in. But for the Bodega glass, I will link that in the show notes so you guys can take a look at it.
Christmas Trifle Recipe: To start this recipe, you’re actually going to need some prepared brownies. There’s two options here. Of course, you can make some brownies cool them completely, and then cut them up into little half inch pieces. Or you can go to your local grocery store bakery, buy a pan of brownies, chop those up, and that works too. So once you get those chopped up into little half inch pieces, you can just set that aside.
Now in a large bowl of a stand mixer, or you can use just a large bowl and a hand mixer, you’re going to whisk together one quarter cup of cold heavy cream and four ounces of softened cream cheese. It’s really important that your cream cheese is completely softened at room temperature so that the cream layer is nice and smooth, and there’s not little chunks of cream cheese in it. I will tell you that cream cheese actually softens really, really quickly at room temperature. You can actually just cut it into smaller cubes and it should come to room temperature within about an hour. Once that quarter cup of heavy cream and the four ounces of cream cheese come together totally smooth and soft, you’re going to pour in one teaspoon of peppermint extract and a half a cup, this is a heaping half cup of powdered sugar. Then you’ll continue to whisk that until everything is combined. Now, to finish this off, you’re going to slowly stream in an additional one and a quarter cups of cold heavy cream. You’re going to whisk that until soft peaks form. So what a soft peak is, let’s say you’re using a stand mixer and you pull that whisk up out of the cream cheese mixture, a little peak and it will slowly sink back into the bowl. That’s a soft peak. The whipped cream cream cheese mixture should be about the texture of a thick pudding.
Now another ingredient that you’re going to need is hot fudge. What I like to buy for this, there’s a brand in the grocery store called Mrs. Richardson’s, and we love that fudge. So you could just buy a 15.5 ounce jar of hot fudge. Take the lid off because the lid is metal. Take the lid off, pop that glass jar in the microwave for just a few seconds and let it warm through and then it will be ready to use.
Now it’s time to assemble your individual chocolate trifles. So for this part what I like to do is put all of my glasses onto a rimmed baking sheet that will fit right in the fridge. Then in each glass, you’re going to start by putting about three to four pieces of brownie down on the bottom. Then you’re going to drizzle in one to two tablespoons of fudge sauce. Then you’ll cover that with a layer of that peppermint whipped cream. Then you’re going to do a generous layer of this stuff called Andes Peppermint Crunch chips. They sell out like hot cakes this time of year. So if you are going to make this, you’re going to want to run to the store and see if you can find it. You’ll either find it in the baking aisle near the chocolate chips, or you’ll find it in the candy aisle near all of the Christmas candies.
So put a generous layer on that, and then you’re going to repeat all those steps one more time. So three to four pieces of brownie, one to two tablespoons of the hot fudge, a layer of the peppermint whipped cream, and then you’ll finish it off with the Peppermint Crunch chips. Then you’ll put all of those glasses right into the fridge. That’s why I like to put them on that rimmed baking sheet because you can put them all in there at the same time, about 12 to 24 hours in the fridge for everything to set up. Then you serve those cold. They go perfect with a candy cane on the side and a nice hot cup of coffee.
So that does it for the full chocolate Christmas trifle recipe. I hope you’ll make this for Christmas. If you do, I would love to have you rate and review the recipe right on momsdinner.net.
So as always, I will link all of the recipes I talked about right in the show notes for you so you can save it, find it, pin it, use it whenever you’re ready.
Outro: Until next time, I hope this episode of Let’s Make Dinner makes your holiday time a little sweeter. See ya.
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