Jello Recipes
Elegant Summer Fruit Trifle with Vanilla and Cointreau
This delicious trifle combines vanilla pudding, amaretti cookies, fresh berries and a touch of orange-flavored liqueur to make it nutty, fruity, crunchy, and creamy all at once. Amaretti are almond-flavored cookies, which you can get in many grocery stores. These macaroon-type cookies are traditional to the town of Saronno, which is in Lombardy, Italy. These cookies were invented in the early eighteenth century. According to legend, a bishop from Milan visited Saronno unexpectedly and a young couple invented a sugar, egg white and crushed almond cookie especially for him. He loved them so much that he blessed the two with a long and happy marriage.
If you cannot find these cookies where you live, you can use vanilla-flavored cookies or wafers instead. If you want to make this fruit trifle in one big dish, instead of in separate serving glasses, it will be a big loose when you spoon it out, which does not affect the flavor but might affect the presentation because it might look rather sloppy. This dessert is best if you chill it overnight but make sure it has at least a couple of hours in the refrigerator, to enable the flavors to blend and to make sure the jello layers have set properly.
Fruit trifle recipes are often made in the summer but you can make this at any time of the year and for any occasion since they are too good to miss out on. These individual trifles are simple to make and they contain both jello gelatin and jello instant pudding. The gelatin gives color to the dessert and enhances the strawberry flavor and the pudding gives this fruit trifle recipe a rich, creamy touch.
Raspberry and Strawberry Fruit Trifle with Amaretti
Ingredients -
2 cups chopped fresh strawberries plus 10 whole ones
1 cup fresh raspberries
3 tablespoons Cointreau
1 cup boiling water
½ cup cold water
1 package strawberry jello
14 oz amaretti or almond cookies, broken into small pieces
2 packages instant vanilla pudding
4 cups milk
Preparation:
Divide half the amaretti cookies between 10 serving glasses.
Dissolve the jello in the boiling water, and then stir in the Cointreau and cold water.
Chill the jello for half an hour, then stir in the raspberries and chopped strawberries.
Whisk the milk with the vanilla pudding and divide half of it between the serving glasses.
Top that with the thickened strawberry jello mixture.
Repeat these 3 layers and top each trifle with a whole strawberry.
Chill the desserts for at least 2 hours before serving.
(Serves 10)
Photo Description:
This elegant and colorful fruit trifle recipe combines crunchy cookie with creamy pudding and fruity jello, give it plenty of flavor as well as contrasting textures. If you are looking for easy fruit trifle recipes, which you can serve at a dinner party or any kind of get-together, you will like this summer fruit trifle recipe because it is simple to make but the results are spectacular. You can use Cointreau to add more flavor to the jello layers or any other orange-flavored liqueur. If you prefer, you can omit this ingredient. Fruit trifle recipes are really popular in the summer because they are cool, refreshing, and full of flavor.
Choosing the Best Fruit for Your Dessert Recipes
Whether you are making a summer fruit trifle, a fresh fruit salad or another recipe featuring fruit, it is important to know how to choose the best fruit, in order to ensure your dessert recipe is a success. There are lots of fruit preparation tips, such as soaking sliced banana in lemon or lime juice to stop it going brown or rinsing strawberries before removing the green caps so they do not go soggy inside.
You can be creative when using fruit to make fruit trifle recipes. If you are making a strawberry trifle, you can use half strawberries and half raspberries if you want to. For some extra color, what about adding a few kiwi slices or chopped fresh peach? If you are new to making trifle recipes, you might want to stick to the recipe but if you like to experiment in the kitchen, adding some different fruit to the recipe will not do any harm. One thing to remember though - there is an enzyme in fresh pineapple which makes it incompatible with jello. It simply will not set. If you want to use pineapple in your jello layer, use canned pineapple because it does not contain this enzyme.
Fresh Fruit is Best
For some recipes you can use thawed or canned fruit but for others it is important to use fresh produce. A good rule is to follow the recipe. If the recipe tells you to use fresh fruit, that is for a reason. Picture in your mind a summer fruit trifle topped with fresh, juicy strawberries. Can you imagine how it would look? Now picture the same fruit trifle recipe garnished with thawed strawberries. You can see how the first one would look fresh and tempting but the second would be a mushy mess.
Thawed and canned fruit are fine for pies and mousse recipes but for the best trifle recipes stick to fresh fruit. It tastes better and looks better too. If your chosen fruit is not in season, choose another variety.
Maybe you fancied making a raspberry trifle or a strawberry trifle. What do you do if these fruits are not available? Simply switch to kiwi fruit, honeydew melon, or another soft fruit, which is in season for an equally colorful fruit trifle recipe, which will taste just as nice. Of course, a summer fruit trifle should include summer fruits so, if you are making such a recipe in the summer, the ingredients should be available locally.
