Caramel Apple Trifle is layers of cider donuts, caramel sauce, apples, and pudding! A total fall dream dessert topped with whipped cream!

So today is Tuesday. I kinda think it’s the most boring day of the week. It’s not universally hated, like Monday. There is no way that the Bangles would have had a hit record with “Just another Tragic Tuesday”.
Tuesday doesn’t have the honor of being called “Hump Day”…which, now that we’re on the subject, is hugely inappropriate. Who even says that besides radio DJs and awkward grocery store cashiers who are trying to create a dialogue as they scan your Golden Grahams?
Next is Thursday. Everyone loves Thursday because, well, it’s almost Friday. And then there’s Friday, who even got it’s own restaurant.
Yeah, Tuesday is the sophomore year of the days of the week. Completely forgettable. So I am going to deem today “Trifle Tuesday”. Sure, they’re retro and grandma-ish, but the possibilities are endless.
So come on now and get your trifle on like it’s 1985…Trifle Tuesday ~ it’s happening.
This Caramel Apple Trifle is easy. It’s basically layering anything yummy you want all in one dish and calling it a dessert.
Here’s what I used:

*not pictured caramel sauce and Whipped Topping*
I started with Apple Cider Donuts…

I cut them up and lined the bottom of the trifle dish.

I plopped some custard on top of the donuts then topped that with oatmeal cookies that I chopped up.

Drizzle some caramel on top of that.

Then top that with some cake. I made Duncan Hines Decadent Apple Caramel Cake, but you could use pound cake or yellow cake or white cake or vanilla cake. Look, just as long as it’s cake, mmmkay?

Spread some apple pie filling on top of that…

and then plop some more custard on and more oatmeal cookies…
There’s no exactness to this. Relax people…you don’t have to measure. Embrace it.

Now top it all off with some Whipped Topping and some more caramel.

Caramel Apple Trifle
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Yield: serves 12 1x
Ingredients
- 1 baked cake (apple, white, pound)
- 1 can apple pie filling
- 1 jar caramel sauce
- Apple Cider donuts (approx 4-6 depending on size)
- prepared vanilla pudding or custard
- coarsely chopped oatmeal cookies
- whipped topping
Instructions
- In a trifle pan layer all your ingredients starting with the donuts, pudding, cookies, caramel, cake, apple pie filling, pudding, cookies…
- continue layering until the trifle dish is full finishing with whipped topping and a drizzle of caramel.
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Yummy recipe and I love your print 🙂
i like easy canvas prints on facebook!
thank you for such a yummy recipe…definitely going to try that this week.
Looks yummy! I might have to do a chocolate one. With only variations of chocolate in it. Then I’ll take a picture of it and order that as my canvas 😉
STEPHANIE! YOU WON! I will be emailing you this morning!
Trifle Tuesday – I love it! You’re right Tuesdays don’t get enough attention, I actually like Tuesdays. I’ve already started the week so none of the post weekend blues but I still feel like I have the whole week ahead of me to get things done. Which usually doesn’t happen but at least I feel hopeful on Tuesdays that this time it might!
The recipe sounds delicious! Also thanks for the awesome giveaway.
Oh my gosh! That triffle looks delicious (and now I have a sudden need for apple cider doughnuts!)!
Gotta love a big canvas!
Not even having to slice and peel the apples-I love it!
This sounds amazing! Can’t wait to serve this at my fall book club gathering! And the canvas print would be an awesome gift for my MIL that can’t get enough of her grandbabies!!