Get the App

Recipes

Find a Recipe Blue Ribbon Recipes Pinch It!™ Feed Browse All Recipes

Editorial

Food Bites & Articles Videos What is a Blue Ribbon? Meet the Test Kitchen

Community

Member Recipes Groups Sweepstakes Contests Shopping

strawberry-almond shortcake triffle

knish avatar
Recipe by
Helaine Norman
@knish
Sunrise, FL

So good it is hard to believe how low fat and low carb it is! Be sure to add little sugar or non-sugar sweetener to the fresh strawberries, and chill them in the fridge several hours. The juice it creates is necessary to sink into the cake.

yield 10 to 12
method Refrigerate/Freeze

Ingredients For strawberry-almond shortcake triffle

  • 1 1/4 c
    fat free milk (or non-dairy milk like almond milk)
  • 1 pkg
    (4 serving size) jell-o vanilla fat free sugar free instant pudding & pie filling
  • 4 Tbsp
    orange juice, divided
  • 1/8 tsp
    ground or powdered nutmeg
  • 1
    tub (8 ounces) cool whip lite topping, thawed
  • 1 pkg
    (13.6 ounces) fat free pound cake or angel food cake (or make your own)
  • 3 c
    strawberries, halved
  • 1/4 c
    sliced almonds, toasted

How To Make strawberry-almond shortcake triffle

  • 1
    In advance: Be sure to add little sugar or non-sugar sweetener to the fresh strawberries, and chill them in the fridge several hours. The juice it creates is necessary to sink into the cake. ------- Pour cold milk into large bowl. Add pudding mix, 2 Tbsp orange juice and nutmeg. Beat with wire whisk 1 minute. Gently stir in whipped topping.
  • 2
    Slice cake horizontally into 4 layers. Cut into 1-inch cubes (or tear into bite size pieces). Sprinkle cake layers evenly with remaining 2 Tbsp orange jice. Place 1/2 the cake cubes in bottom of 2 1/2 Qt. straight-sided bowl. Spoon 1/2 the pudding mixture over cake cubes. Top with strawberries and almonds (reserving several for garnish). Sprinkle remaining cake cubes and pudding mixture over almonds. Top with reserved strawberries and almonds.
  • 3
    Refrigerate until ready to serve. Store leftover dessert in fridge.
  • Last Step: Don't forget to share! Make all your friends drool by posting a picture of your finished recipe on your favorite social network. And don't forget to tag Just A Pinch and include #justapinchrecipes so we can see it too!
ADVERTISEMENT