Simple Fare, Fairly Simple

Last weekend we went to a wedding. No...not my daughter's, but a different wedding. It was outside next to a lake underneath some trees. It was a beautiful setting! It was a very informal occasion and everyone was asked to bring a dish to share. My favorite thing to take to a pot-luck is a dessert. I knew I had a pound cake in my freezer and that I wanted to use it in some way and a trifle popped into my head. I hadn't made one in years but it was just as good as I remember. Apparently everyone else thought it was good, too because I brought home an empty bowl.

Raspberry Trifle

3 – 4 cups cubed pound cake, homemade or store bought (I used the Simple Pound Cake recipe found on the blog here. Use two loaf pans instead of the bundt pan. You can use one for this recipe and freeze the other one for later.)

1 cup raspberry preserves

2 cups fresh raspberries

2 8-ounce containers Cool Whip

1 large vanilla instant pudding

1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk

2 cups whole milk

In a large bowl, stir milk and instant pudding together until combined. Stir in sweetened condensed milk. Gently fold in Cool Whip. Set aside.

Microwave preserves about 1 minute or until warm and liquid-y.

In a large trifle bowl or glass dish, place 1 cup cubed pound cake. Drizzle about ½ cup warmed preserves over pound cake. Spread about 1 cup of pudding mixture over preserves. Sprinkle with some raspberries. Spread some Cool Whip on top of raspberries.

Repeat until all ingredients have been used, ending with Cool Whip on top then raspberries for garnish.

Cover with plastic wrap and chill until time to serve.

Here's the ingredients. 

There's a story about the pound cake. 

My new son-in-law LOVES pound cake 

so I made one for him for the groom's cake 

at the wedding a couple of weeks ago. 

When I went to take it out of the pan, 

the top of the cake stuck to the pan. 

I wrapped up that sad looking pound 

cake and threw it in the freezer for later use. 

This recipe post is the "later use". 

That's why the pound cake here looks so bad....

but it was getting cut up anyway.

Mix the pudding with the 2 cups milk 

and the sweetened condensed milk. Stir it good!

The gently fold in the Cool Whip.

I could eat this stuff all day long.

Cut the pound cake into 1 inch cubes.

Warm your preserves.

The start layering. Start with the pound cake. 

Drizzle on some preserves, then pudding mixture,

then more pound cake then Cool Whip 

until everything is used.

I love the look of this! 

I love the taste even more!