If you’re looking for a delicious Memorial Day dessert, this is a great recipe.
Layers of fluffy Angel food cake with a thick blueberry syrup, laced with cream cheese frosting and topped with fresh fruit.
🫐TIP: to cut down on prep time, purchase a bottle of blueberry pancake syrup, and omit making your own. Use 1 1/2 C. Of syrup.
Patriotic Trifle
1 Angel Food Cake, cut into 1 inch squares
🍓Blueberry Sauce:
1 lb. fresh blueberries
1/2 C. Sugar
Juice of a half lemon
1/3 C. Water
Add all ingredients to a medium size saucepan.
Cook on medium heat for 20 minutes. Stir often. To thicken up, make a slurry of 1 T. Corn starch + 1 T water. Stir smooth and add to the blueberry syrup. Cook for a few minutes. Remove from heat. Allow to cool.
🍓In a medium size bowl, slice 2 qts. of strawberries. Add 1/4 C. Sugar. Stir well. Allow to sit for 20 minutes. The sugar will draw the juices out of the strawberries. Stir well.
🍓Cream Cheese Frosting:
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/4 C. Sugar
1/4 C. Heavy cream
2 C. Whipped cream, whipped.
In a trifle dish, cover the bottom with cubed cake pieces.
Pour the blueberry syrup over the cake.
Spread a layer of cream cheese frosting over the blueberries.
Add a layer of cake cubes.
Add 2/3 of the strawberries.
Add a layer of cream cheese frosting.
Add a layer of cake cubes.
Add the rest of the cream cheese frosting.
Spread smooth.
Garnish with the rest of the strawberries and a few blueberries.