Jello Recipes
Basic Strawberry Trifle Recipe
This delicious basic strawberry trifle recipe only takes about ten minutes to make. You can use fresh blueberries or peaches instead of the strawberries if you want to. Angel food cake can be used instead of the pound cake. If you are looking for a simple recipe for a dessert for the family, you will enjoy this basic strawberry trifle recipe because there is not anything complicated about it and even beginner cooks can make it. It is easy to use a readymade cake, rather than make your own, but you can make a homemade cake if you want to, with a white or yellow cake mix. Just follow the instructions on the package.
This trifle does not contain jello, unlike a lot of other trifle recipes, and it does not contain alcohol either but not every trifle recipe does. If you have some strawberries to use up, you will find this basic strawberry trifle to be refreshing and light, making it the ideal dessert for a warm spring or summer day. It looks good and it tastes delicious. Fresh strawberries are very healthy and combining the nutrition of strawberries with the not-so-healthy ingredients like cream and sweetened condensed milk does result in a delicious dessert, which is very well balanced.
This recipe is great for adults or kids because the flavors are simple yet tasty. A lot of people would claim that strawberries are their favorite fruit of all and there is no doubt they smell wonderful and taste really good. If you see a big package of strawberries on discount in the store, you might want to consider making this delicious basic strawberry trifle because it is strawberry-rich and you can use the fruit to make something spectacular but so easy.
Fresh Strawberry Trifle with White Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients -
1 ½ cups cold water
½ cup sweetened condensed milk
2 cups halved fresh strawberries
8 oz whipped cream
1 package white chocolate flavor instant pudding
12 whole fresh strawberries
8 oz pound cake
Preparation:
Whisk the milk and water together, then whisk in the pudding mix for a couple of minutes.
Let it stand for 5 minutes, and then fold in the whipped cream.
Cut the cake into half-inch cubes.
Spoon ⅓ of the pudding mixture into a 4 quart trifle bowl, then top it with half the cake cubes and all the halved strawberries.
Add another ⅓ of the pudding mixture, then the rest of the cake.
Top the trifle with the remaining pudding and the whole strawberries.
(Serves 10)
Photo Description:
This photo shows you how appetizing our basic strawberry trifle looks. Combining cubes of soft cake with creamy white chocolate pudding and fat, juicy fresh strawberries, this is one of the most refreshing summer dessert recipes of all. If you like trifle, you will really like this basic strawberry trifle. Not only does it taste great but also it is so easy to make and you really do not need a lot of ingredients. You can make one big trifle, like in the photo, or divide the mixture between ten smaller dessert glasses, to make individual servings.
How to Grow Strawberries in a Pot
There is only one thing better than a homemade basic strawberry trifle and that is a basic strawberry trifle recipe made with strawberries you have grown yourself. So how do you grow strawberries in a pot? Actually, it is quite easy. Strawberries do well in pots and they will even grow indoors, as long as you put them on a sunny windowsill or give them some artificial sunlight. All strawberries need six hours of sunlight a day and you should rotate the pots so every part of the plant gets its share.
The three kinds of strawberries are day neutral, ever-bearing or June-bearing. Day neutral ones like cooler temperatures and will not produce blossom or fruit if it is too hot. Ever-bearing strawberries produce a crop in the spring and one in the late summer and June-bearing produce fruit in June. There are different varieties within these categories too.
How to Plant and Tend Your Fruit
Plant your strawberries in early spring if you live somewhere cold or in the fall if you live somewhere warm. If you are going to grow them indoors, plant them whenever you like. The soil should have a pH between 5.3 and 6.5 for the best results and it should be fertilized. Trim any roots to four inches and take any damaged parts off the plants. Soak the roots in water, and then plant the strawberry plants with the roots fanning out and the crown at the surface of the soil.
Take the blossoms off for the first six weeks after you plant them, if you are growing a day-neutral or ever-bearing variety. This helps the plants to become established before they expend a lot of energy on producing berries. Water them daily until the growing season and then only when the top inch of soil dries out. Fertilize the plants once a month with a high-potassium fertilizer; tomato fertilizers usually suit strawberry plants.
Strawberry pots hold one, two, or three plants at the top and runners in the sides but a lot of gardeners choose to fill all the openings with strawberry plants at the beginning. You will need potting soil, a PVC pipe, and a drill to plant a strawberry pot. Cut the pipe to fit inside the pot and drill 1/8 inch holes an inch apart down it. Part-fill the pot with soil and insert the tube, cap-down, into the middle. Add the remaining soil and plant each pocket. Put a funnel into the pipe and pour water down it. Plant the pockets and pick the strawberries for making your basic trifle recipe when they are red.
