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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I’d love a canvas print – thanks for the giveaway!
Neat!!! I saw the easy canvas prints at my daughter’s house recently. The trifle looks delicious but deadly in the calorie category.
What a great fall treat! Caramel apples in the best form possible!
I love your blog and this recipe sounds delicious! Ok random.org… today’s my day! 🙂
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I love your blog and read it religiously. But I HAD to respond when I saw that picture that hit close to home for me. I worked at VMI back in 2008-2010 and have many fond memories of my Rats and Keydets. Just seeing that picture of your family in front of barracks makes me miss Lexington so much!! He’s lucky to come home to such wonderful treats, please stop by Salernos for me when you’re next in Lexington so I can live vicariously through you!
Did you really?? He’s in his second year there and LOVES it. LOVES. I was worried at first about him going there, but it’s really the best place for him. We are going to be going down next weekend for Parents Weekend, so I’ll be sure to stop by Salernos for you 🙂
Trifles make me think of that one episode of Friends where Rachel tries to make a trifle and the recipe pages get stuck together and she ends up adding meat to it. Hehe
HAHAHAA…”It tastes like feet” Love that episode!
I’m already a fan of Easy Canvas prints. Does that count?
yep, that counts 🙂
I would love the canvas print! I love photos period!