Black Forest Trifle

Have you ever woken up with a craving for a particular food? I’m talking a bone deep, must have, nothing-will-stop-you-from-having-it food craving. Moments like that are pretty rare for me, but the day before my 31st birthday, I woke up with an intense craving for the Black Forest Trifle my Momma used to make!

Of course I couldn’t remember exactly how my Mom used to make this Trifle. I knew there was pie filling and cake and some sort of chocolate bar… oh! And pudding… but after that I was stuck! So I facetimed my sister and we discussed. Pretty sure I transferred my craving via facetime to Emily. 😀 Between the 2 of us we were able to remember the other ingredients and work out the layering sequence.

Immediately after ending our call I headed to the grocery store for all the necessary Black Forest Trifle ingredients. Trifle tastes best when its allowed to sit and “gel together” after a few hours, or even better, over night, and I NEEDED to have this trifle on my birthday!

 

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My favorite thing about this Black Forest Trifle is the moist melding of flavors. Its just SO GOOD! With the help of my sister I nailed the ingredients and was able to recreate this favorite childhood dessert!

 

I have to admit… I was a little bit spoiled as I made my birthday trifle… my MIL happened to pop over to drop something off and offered to wash my trifle dishes as I was working on the layers 🙂 I know… I have an awesome MIL. But honestly, the multitude of dishes is my least favorite part of making desserts like this. SO not only did I get the trifle I was craving, I also didn’t have to clean the kitchen when I was done! Yep!! I’m super spoiled 😀 Don’t worry, I paid her back with some Black Forest Trifle of her own 🙂

I might have been as giddy as a 7 year old girl when lunch time rolled around the following day… it was my birthday and by george, I was gonna eat that trifle and enjoy every morsel 😀

Have you ever had an intense food craving that just HAD to be satisfied? What was it?