Apple trifle is an easy no bake, make ahead single serving dessert.

Easy no bake apple trifle pudding in single serving glasses

Apple trifle pudding is a quick and easy layered dessert. Chopped caramelized apples and vanilla custard are arranged in layers and topped with whipped cream. Normally trifle also has a layer of cake but in this easy version cake replaces graham crackers.

6 mini single serving glasses of no bake dessert

What is Trifle Pudding?

Trifle pudding is an English dessert prepared layering sherry or wine soaked sponge cake, egg custard and whipped cream. Later versions include fresh fruit, jelly and/or jam. Over the years the recipe evolved and for ease of convenience, powdered custard and instant pudding (Jello instant pudding) replaced egg custards.

Trifle is easy to prepare and assemble, which makes it a great make ahead party dessert. Assembling in mini individual serving glasses makes it a mess free dessert at parties.

A finished empty glass in the front and 5 glasses of pudding in the back.

Apple Trifle Recipe

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Apple Trifle Recipe

Apple trifle is an easy, no bake single serving dessert. A mess free dessert for parties and gatherings.

5 from 5 votes

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 20

Total Time: 35

Servings:

Calories:

Author: Usha Rao

Ingredients

Caramelized Apples

2 Red Delicious Apples
1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
¼ cup Dark brown Sugar
½ Cinnamon Powder
1 tablespoon Unsalted Butter

Custard (require only ½ – ¾ of this custard)

2 cups Milk I used 2% milk, use whole milk for rich custard
3 tablespoon Custard Powder I used Bird’s custard powder. It is available in Indian and speciality stores
4 tablespoon Granulated Sugar
⅛ teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Assembling

2 sheets of Graham Crackers powdered
Whipped Cream I used Reddi Wip
6 3 ½ – 3 ¾ oz Glasses

Instructions

Caramelizing Apples

Wash, peel, core and chop apples into ¾ – 1” pieces.
Take chopped apples, lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon powder and butter in a small saute pan. Mix together all the ingredients.
Cook apples for few minutes until sugar melts.
Reduce the flame to medium and continue cooking until sugar caramelizes and coats apple pieces. Sugar syrup should thicken and almost coat apples. This should take about 7-9 minutes.
Turn off the flame and let cool.

Custard

Take 1 ¾ cups of milk in a saucepan and bring to boil.
Meantime, take remaining ¼ cup milk in a small bowl, add custard powder, make a lump free paste and keep the paste aside.
Once milk comes to a boil, reduce the flame, add custard paste to boiled milk and stir constantly to make a smooth lump free custard.
Cook for a few more minutes until custard coats the back of the spoon.
Add vanilla extract and 3 tablespoon of sugar.
Keep stirring until sugar melts and custard is thick. Keep in mind, custard thickens after cooling.
Turn of the flame, sprinkle remaining sugar on custard and keep aside to cool. Sugar will melt and prevent the custard from forming a thick layer on the surface.

Assembling

Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon of graham cracker powder at the bottom of the glasses.
Add 1 ½ – 2 teaspoon of caramelized apples followed by 1 ½ – 2 tablespoon of custard.
Add another layer of graham cracker powder, apples and custard.
Refrigerate the glasses until ready to serve. There should be some leftover graham cracker powder, keep it aside.
When ready to serve, top the glasses with some whipped cream and sprinkle some powdered graham crackers on top of whipped cream.

Notes

To make the preparation even easier, use instant vanilla pudding mix however, I like the taste of cooked custard better.
I like more custard than the fruit in my trifle and arranged the trifle to my liking. There is no hard rule on fruit to custard ratio and assemble trifle to your liking. I used little over 1 cup of custard for assembling apple trifle.

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Easy Apple Trifle, No Bake Dessert

What is Trifle Pudding?

Apple Trifle Recipe

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