Pumpkin Trifle Recipe

5 from 1 vote

The store-bought ingredients keep this Pumpkin Trifle Recipe super simple. The Pumpkin Cupcakes and caramel sauce keep it delicious! This is the perfect holiday dessert and you won't believe how easy it is!

Prep Time15

Total Time15

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 816kcal

Author: Sharon Garofalow

Equipment

Hand Mixer
Mixing bowl
Rolling Pin

Ingredients

20 store-bought Pumpkin Spice Mini Cupcakes frosting and wrappers removed
8 oz. cream cheese softened
1 1/2 cups sweetened condensed milk
12 oz. container of Whipped Topping thawed
1 cup slivered almonds
1 cup pecans chopped
1 cup pretzels broken into small pieces
1 cup caramel sauce

Instructions

Remove the wrappers and frosting from the Pumpkin Spice Miini Cupcakes (set aside the frosting to use in another recipe if desired).
Put the cupcakes in a bowl and set aside.
In a large bowl, whip together softened cream cheese, sweeten condensed milk and thawed whipped topping until smooth.
In a plastic zipper back, break up pretzels into smaller pieces by hitting with an ice cream scooper or other hard utensil.
To assemble the dessert place several cupcakes on the bottom of the bowl making sure they touch the sides.
Top with a layer of the cream cheese mixture.
Add some nuts and pretzels as well as a drizzle of caramel sauce.
Repeat layers until you run out of cake pieces.
Be sure to end with a cream cheese layer on top.
Garnish with extra nuts and pretzles and a final drizzle of caramel sauce.
Serve immediately.

Notes

Be sure to let the cream cheese sit out to soften before making the cream cheese layer. It will help so much and ensure that it blends smoothly.

If you want the trifle to have more of a cake presence, you can easily bake your own Pumpkin Sheet Cake ahead of time.

If you need to feed a larger crowd but don't want to double the batch, you could add in a layer of just whipped topping to bulk it up.

To enhance the nut flavor even more, you can toast them quickly in a dry pan on the stove.

There is something slightly off on the nutrition of the recipe. Sometimes the software has trouble calculating amounts for things listed like "20 cupcakes".

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