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Better Than Anything Cake Trifles Recipe

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These Better Than Anything Cake Trifles are an ultra decadent dessert made to feed a crowd or just a few hungry people, combining rich devil’s food cake layers with creamy caramel and toffee toppings.

Ingredients

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For the Cake:

  • 2 Devil’s Food Cake mix, box
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 cups water
  • 4 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 4 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 cup sour cream

For the Trifles:

  • 1 sweetened condensed milk, 10oz can
  • 1 caramel topping, 14oz jar
  • 2 Cool Whip, 16oz tubs, thawed
  • 1 Heath Toffee Bits, package (found by the chocolate chips)
  • 1 hot fudge sauce, 14oz. jar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease two 15x10x1 baking sheets with baking spray and set aside.
  2. Prepare cake batter: Prepare one cake mix at a time. Combine one cake mix, 3 eggs, 1 cup water, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 2 tbsp cocoa powder and 1/2 cup sour cream in a large bowl and mix on low speed for 30 seconds. Increase speed and mix until fully combined, scraping down sides of bowl if needed. Pour cake batter into baking sheet, spread to an even layer and bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool completely. Repeat with other cake mix.
  3. Cut cake shapes: Use a circular cookie cutter to cut the shapes needed to fill your plastic cups or trifle dish. Cut 2 circles per cup.
  4. Assemble trifles: Place one circle in the bottom of the cup. Combine the sweetened condensed milk and caramel sauce in a large bowl and spoon one tablespoon over the top of the bottom layer, or if making one large trifle, use half of the mixture.
  5. Add toppings: Sprinkle 1 tsp of toffee bits on top of the coated cake and then top with a layer of Cool Whip, followed by another layer of cake, caramel mixture and more Cool Whip.
  6. Finish and chill: Top each trifle with more toffee bits and then drizzle with the hot fudge sauce. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Enjoy!

Notes

  • If you prefer to make one large trifle, you could probably get away with just baking one cake mix and making it into two 8″ rounds.

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